Thanks for asking!

I have no current plan to update the book in 2018.

WTF? You're not the author of that book, are you?

Update: Just for clarity, when I wrote the above, the post to which I was responding wasn't signed by chromatic but by some other monk. That's why I was very surprised by this answer. This has been fixed now.

How odd. I wrote that post, but there was a server error. I'll see if it can be repaired.

Update: Fixed the author.

"...Modern Perl seems like a nice book..."

Yep - it really is. But don't forget the Camel Book. An all time classic and still a must-have IMHO.

Subject of endless debates on Modern Perl seems to be the chapter about OO. At least i think so.

Especially the section about Immutability:

"....OO novices often treat objects as if they were bundles of records which use methods to get and set internal values. This simple technique leads to the unfortunate temptation to spread the object's responsibilities throughout the entire system..."

But anyway: You need to jump to a conclusion. Read them all. Make it so.

Best regards, Karl

Thank you chromatic for taking time to respond. I'm going through the 4th edition and indeed it's a masterfully written text. Thank you for writing the book and making it available.

karlgoethebier, thanks for the additional information.

chromatic - Pardon my prudence, but may I know why you've decided not to update such a great book? It's spoken of highly and is considered as a definitive text on Modern Perl.

I haven't found a way to add it to my schedule and priority list. As a rough estimate, doing a new edition is probably a month's worth of work spread out over three or four calendar months.

I'm guessing chromatic is waiting because he's very busy and the Perl 5 release cycle has sped up. It takes a long time to update and edit a book. The 4th edition of the book was published in October 2015 while Perl 5.24 was released in May 2016 and Perl 5.26 in May 2017.