Perl 5.11 is now released! Is there anything really exciting in this release, or is it mostly maintenance patches? (From what I've read so far, it appears to be a rollup of improvements we have already seen in prior releases.) the CHANGES file Jesse Vincent's announcement chromatic's blog post 5.11 is the development release of what...
I remember quickly adopting given .. when, say, //, and the smart matching operator when Perl 5.10 came around. What do you consider the most useful fixes and features introduced with Perl 5.12.0? ...
This has been working for me in 5.8 and 5.10, but in 5.12 my code creates this weird non-qr object: # running "print Dumper($regex)" $VAR1 = bless( do{\(my $o = '')}, 'Regexp' ); Whereas printing a qr// not created by my code looks like this: # running "print Dumper(qr/foo/i)" $VAR1 = qr/(?i-xsm:foo)/; My code is basically: REGEXP...
I like Data::Alias. It seems to be broken in 5.12. Can it be fixed? Will it be fixed soon? Is there any nice alternative? ...