Hi Gabor, I apologise for writing to the list from my @gmail.com address, but I did not get this thread into my preferable mailbox yet (I have had lots of problems with incoming E-mails there lately for some reason.)
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am preparing for the "What's new in Perl 5.10 and 5.12" talk on > Wednesday at the first Tel Aviv Perl Mongers meeting > http://telaviv.pm.org/ > > For that I am trying to collect some real world usage information. > I'd be glad to get your help. > > Are you already using 5.10 or 5.12 ? Yes, I'm using perl-5.12.2-5mdv2011.0.i586 on Mandriva Cooker and perl-5.10.1-10mdv2010.1 on Mandriva 2010.2 . > If so, do you use any of the new > features? Which ones? Well, I'm avoiding most if not all of the new features. For a brief time I used Damian's Regexp::Grammars module which was 5.10.0 and above. The reason I'm avoiding them is because I don't want to force people to use newer versions of Perl and because I find easy workarounds for the newer features using older features. > > If you are still on something older than 5.10, have you checked the > new features? Which one would you like to use? keys(@array) and each(@array) in perl-5.12.x seem attractive to me. say() also seems nice and convenient, as are \k (named captures), and many other improvements. > What is the reason you are still using older perl? After all 5.10 was > released 3 years ago? Well, I'm not using older Perls. I recall someone on a different Perl mongers mailing list who sought help with an installation of perl-5.8.7, and refused to upgrade, and I told the list that he was probably beyond help. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > > regards > Gabor > > -- > Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ > Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ > Perl Ecosystem Group http://perl-ecosystem.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > Perl@perl.org.il > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
