Thanks Reini! On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Reini Urban <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Will Willis <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > Reini Urban > http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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