5.8.1 RC1: good, bad, or ugly?

RMGir has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

It looks like 5.8.1 RC 1 is upon us.

How is it?

The perldelta lists some interesting changes, including a fix for the predictable hashing problem.

Has anyone had any major problems with it? I'm going to download it and use it in a test environment.
--
Mike

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Re: 5.8.1 RC1: good, bad, or ugly? by particle (Vicar) on Jul 10, 2003 at 13:45 UTC
so far, so good with perl 5.008_001. however, i'm just beginning to use it. of note: one of my favorite changes, the deprecation of v-strings, may affect your code. from the pod: `=head2 Version Strings (v-strings) Are Deprecated Version Strings (v-strings) have been deprecated. They will not be available after Perl 5.8. The marginal benefits of v-strings were greatly outweighed by the potential for Surprise and Confusion.` [download] for those who `use 5.8.0;` in scripts (which was never truly portable anyway,) instead of `use 5.008;`, you'll likely have to make changes. there are a few other good changes that you may like to read about: the perl debugger has been documented, and bugs have been expunged. also, `s/perl -MCPAN/cpan/`. and there are even more core and core module tests! ~Particle accelerates	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: 5.8.1 RC1: good, bad, or ugly?
by particle (Vicar) on Jul 10, 2003 at 13:45 UTC

so far, so good with perl 5.008_001. however, i'm just beginning to use it.

of note: one of my favorite changes, the deprecation of v-strings, may affect your code. from the pod:

=head2 Version Strings (v-strings) Are Deprecated

Version Strings (v-strings) have been deprecated.  They will not be
available after Perl 5.8.  The marginal benefits of v-strings were
greatly outweighed by the potential for Surprise and Confusion.
[download]

for those who use 5.8.0; in scripts (which was never truly portable anyway,) instead of use 5.008;, you'll likely have to make changes.

there are a few other good changes that you may like to read about: the perl debugger has been documented, and bugs have been expunged. also, s/perl -MCPAN/cpan/. and there are even more core and core module tests!

~Particle *accelerates*

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