[Ottawa-pm] Perl 5.12 is out!

Mark Mielke mark at mark.mielke.cc
Mon Apr 19 19:01:37 PDT 2010


On 04/19/2010 08:56 PM, Yanick Champoux wrote:
> On April 18, 2010 10:30:46 am Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>    
>> I like the yada yada operator myself...
>>      
> 	It's not a bad one.  I'm also pretty happy about the 'package NAME
> VERSION' header (although it's going to be a while before I can put that on my
> CPAN modules), and 'each' finally applying to arrays.  And although I'm
> probably never going to use it myself, I'm really curious to see what the
> crazier mongers will come up with with the new pluggable keywords.
>
> 	All in all, it's a pretty nifty release.  Nothing majorly spectacular,
> but a lot of small improvements that will make our future incrementally rock a
> little bit more. :-)

Emphasize future. :-)

I haven't been able to use any features beyond Perl 5.006 do to how 
successful that release was...

Cheers,
mark



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