Hi, So this is the 20th birthday of Perl and it is also the release date of Perl 5.10 the latest version of Perl.
There are many new features in the language such as * switch statement * say * state to create static ... err, I mean state variables * defined-or // * Smart Match operator ~~ * Regular expressions - Recursive patterns - Named Capture Buffers - Possessive Quantifiers * Lexical my $_ * Stacked filetest operators you can and should of course read the details in http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod but I am also going to give a talk about it on the upcoming Perl Workshop on 31 December. http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2007/ Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
