5.10 has a revamped regexp engine. It's faster and has more features. There's some differences in the way Unicode is handled. Newer Perls make more sense, probably, but if you have something that works in 5.6 you should test it a bit when migrating to 5.10.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Levenglick Dov-RM07994 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Other than somewhat forward compatibility to Perl 6, is there added value in > installing 5.10.x? Are there drawbacks given code originally written for > 5.6.x? > > > > Best Regards, > Dov Levenglick > ΓΌ SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> http://gaal.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
