G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been a few problems reported with 5.6 and I have seen one
> or two myself.
> Although the problems which I saw were largely the result of slightly
> dubious coding practices and were easily fixed, some people had more
> serious problems and it's why I moved to 5.7 for development.
Dunno if it counts as a dubious coding practice, but I've come across
precisely one problem porting the (large) Perl/mod_perl system I maintain
at Motorola from 5.005_03 to 5.6.1:
sub foo(&@);
foo {} qw(BAR BAZ);
no longer works (from 5.6.0, actually), presumably because qw() actually
generates a list at compile time, rather than translating to split, and
the equivalent construct "foo {} ('BAR', 'BAZ');" doesn't compile in
5.005_03 either.
I was slightly doubtful about 5.6.0 as a major release, but I would regard
5.6.1 as safe for production use as long as you treat some of the new
bleeding edge features with sensible caution.
Pete
