[pm-h] aggregated perldelta

Will Willis will.willis at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 18:57:44 PST 2013


Thanks Reini!

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:

> 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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