\chapter{In The Next Edition}

The following topics or modifications are planned for inclusion in the next edition
of this Perl 5 Tutorial. If you have any other suggestions on other topics of interest or
amendments to the content of this edition, please feel free to use my feedback forum or my
email feedback form to let me know. The Web links can be found on page 2. \\

\begin{itemize}
\item more full code examples and illustrative figures
\item more advanced CGI scripting techniques and more on \mono{CGI}
\item threading and \mono{fork()}ing new processes
\item mod\_perl
\item Database access with \mono{DBI} and \mono{DBD::*}
\item introduction to XS
\item internationalization support in Perl and PerlIO layers
\item GUI building with Tk
%\item Formats (unlikely, because it's really archaic)
\item more examples on complex data structures and algorithms implementations
\item socket programming and existing CPAN classes (e.g. \mono{LWP}, \mono{Net::*})
\item ``heredoc'' quotation syntax (I'm not fond of it but some people do use it)
\item Regular expressions (Perl extensions) 
\item \mono{Exporter} module in object-oriented programming
\item more object-oriented design principles and examples
\item coverage of \mono{File::*} and \mono{IO::*} classes
\item operator overloading
\item Command line parameter parsing with \mono{GetOpt::Long}
\item ties and object persistence
\end{itemize}

