By the way, until I figure out how to drive combust on perl.org, the most recent versions of Apocalpses and Synopses may be found at:

Apos

Syns

There are new S10, S11, S12, and S13 pods there.

Recent changes include:

  • Strictures and warnings are now the default in the main program.
  • Syntax of subtype and enum declarations more like normal declarations.
  • Subtypes are now declared with "subtype" keyword.
  • Symbolic ref syntax reverted back to ::($expr).
  • Syntax of operators now defined to leverage hash subscript syntax:
    • Infix:«+»            # op name always quoted now
    • circumfix:«[ ]»        # multipart ops are now slices, no ... needed
    • circumfix:{'[',']'}    # same thing
  • Special rule for splitting symmetrical operator names is gone, use slice.
  • Special rules for recognizing the ends of operator names are gone.
  • Current class is $?CLASS or ::?CLASS, not ::_.
  • Current sub is $?SUB, not &_.
  • There is no bogus first argument to the pair-arg variant of bless.

See the Synopses for details. Or read the Apocalypses, and search for the string "Update:".

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Larry

This did get an honorable mention in Re^2: Why Perl Is Not My Favourite Functional Programming Language, but I thought it worth giving it a little more prominence.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon

20041107 Edit by ysth title change: s/Apocalpses/Apocalypses/

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