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.

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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*

In reply to Re: 5.8.1 RC1: good, bad, or ugly? by particle
in thread 5.8.1 RC1: good, bad, or ugly? by RMGir

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