Perl 5.10 introduced many new features that had built up over the years. Some of these we covered in the book, but we’ll cover some of those that we neglected. It might take us some time to get around to them all, but we’ll eventually make it. If you want to read about some sooner than others, let us know. Continue reading “Perl 5.10 new features”
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Perl 5.8 features
Perl 5.8, mostly a release that improved much of the unseen things in Perl, did have some notable, user-visible features.
- Restricted hashes with Hash::Util (5.8.0)
- Use sitecustomize.pl to affect all programs (5.8.7)
- PerlIO is now the default (5.8.0)