I have been an on and off Perl programmer for over 30 years (my Learning Perl (4) book is pink), and I came here to ask almost the same question. Thank you to you and to everyone who replied. I would like to add on and see if I can't extract a bit more wisdom from folks. My problem is that though I have been coding Perl for this long, my knowledge ossified about 20 years ago. I think the Conway Perl Best Practices book could be seen as my last big knowledge tuning. I do not say a lot, and when I saw a recent code example with a postfix dereference operator my mind exploded. That is literally what started this knowledge quest. I am about to kick off a new project and I have the luxury of possibly saying use v5.40;, so I'd like to take full advantage of that.

So what is the best way to get up to date with the latest? Mastering Perl will get me to 5.22 it seems (thank you, chromatic), but how to fill the gap from then until now? Reading each version's perldelta? I'll do that if so. I am not looking for replies with additional changes that are not enumerated already above but rather an RTFM with a pointer to a 'manual'. But if there are any editorial comments about what might be 'new' and is already an anti-pattern, I would love to hear it.

Thank you!

In reply to Re: Returning to Perl after almost 3 decades by sludin
in thread Returning to Perl after almost 3 decades by DaWolf

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