Rich Burridge wrote:
>
> I'm sponsoring the following fast track for John Sonnenschein.
> The requested release binding is Minor. The fast track times out
> on 06/02/2009.
>
> ----
>
> 1. Introduction
>
> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>
> PSARC/2009/315 Update Perl to version 5.10.x
[snip]
> Script interface (Uncommitted)
> ---------------------------
>
> There have been no major changes between 5.8.x and 5.10.x
> except
> backwards compatible extensions.
>
> Incompatible changes are as follows:
>
> * Packing and UTF-8 strings
> * Byte/character count feature in unpack()
> * The $* and $# variables have been removed
> * substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length
> * Parsing of -f _
> * :unique
> * Effect of pragmas in eval
> * chdir FOO
> * Handling of .pmc files
> * $^V is now a version object instead of a v-string
> * @- and @+ in patterns
> * $AUTOLOAD can now be tainted
> * Tainting and printf
> * undef and signal handlers
> * strictures and dereferencing in defined()
> * (?p{}) has been removed
> * Pseudo-hashes have been removed
> * Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc
> * Removal of the JPL
> * Recursive inheritance detected earlier
>
> Full explanation of changes are included in
> perl5100delta.pod.txt
> (in the case materials directory)
One thing I'd like to see is to swtch the "perl" build to use SFIO
(available via libast) for better I/O performance (we need to setup an
interface contract between OS/Net and SFWNV for that). Originally this
was planned for the "next perl update" but that somehow drowned with the
RIF of Tim Sparlin's team... ;-(
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Bye,
Roland
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