[pm-h] aggregated perldelta

Reini Urban rurban at x-ray.at
Thu Feb 7 18:40:58 PST 2013


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Will Willis <will.willis at gmail.com> wrote:
> When "big" features are announced with a release, undoubtedly someone in the
> community will post slides or a write up on the new release, why you should
> start using it in production tomorrow, yadda, yadda... given/when,
> defined-or, and named captures are a few that come to mind, I think that was
> back in 5.10, and there was certainly a lot to write around that time.
>
> I wasn't able to find any write ups online for the latest release, either
> there were no newsworthy new features, or my google-foo is weak. I know
> about perlXdelta.pod, that shows the delta between the last release of perl,
> but is there a way to programmatically get a synopsis of new features
> (and/or fixes) in perl-Y since perl-X?  Specifically, I'm curious what great
> new features I should be using that were introduced after 5.10 (not that I'm
> even using all of those yet), but would like to learn how to fish for these
> answers myself (if possible) rather than posting to a list :)

5.18:
lexical subs

5.16:
unicode symbols
__SUB__

5.14:
package block {  }
\N{CHARNAME}
/(?^i:)/ regex stringification
/d, /l, /u or /a regex modifiers
s///r now functional
safe /(?{...})/ code blocks

5.12:
package name version
... yada yada
use 5.12.0 is now strict (via features)
@INC reorganization, perl behind site and vendor

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