I use perl 5.5.3 but we are preparing to upgrade to 5.6 at work. WE use it on a wide variety of platforms, mostly Solaris 2.5.1. We are upgrading mainly due to

• open( my $foo, "/path/to/somewhere" )
• the scoped warnings and the ability to make new warning classes
• upgraded Data::Dumper that can handle qr// correctly.
• my $ip = 10.0.0.1;

The last one is, I understand, a horrible kludge but it will make lots of my coding much easier.

At home I use FreeBSD and I have perl 5.5.3 in /usr/bin and just installed perl 5.6 in /usr/local/bin. I understand that FreeBSD-CURRENT is using perl 5.6 and I expect that to be backported soon.

mikfire