Hi Folks: Understanding PERL internals is the key to success with high quality PERL scripting and overall improvement of our understanding of - . how PERL runtime works . the design of various facilities . the rich pattern matching semantics . how the modules work together . execution contexts among many other interesting aspects of language design.
Gisle Aas has written an interesting article titled 'PerGuts' There are numerous graphical illustrations which help understand the concepts visually and hence better. Please take a look at http://gisle.aas.no/perl/illguts/ thanks Saifi.
