in reply to What is modern Perl?

I believe that the term "Modern Perl" was coined by Michael Saltzman in the title of his book Modern Perl Programming. The book is reviewed here.

Noting when this book was published, 2002, this would suggest that version 5.6.1 would be the baseline version of modern perl. I agree with this, in that I expect modules to be supported in this version and all subsequent. This is also the version I develop on primarily, owing to platform and user base reasons. I've also not had any need to embrace i18n and utf-8 in my applications, which are the main changes in the 5.8.x stream.

This version had "use warnings", "our" and lexical file handles, all of which I tend to make use of in my own modules.

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Re^2: What is modern Perl?
by kiat (Vicar) on Dec 21, 2004 at 14:32 UTC
    Although I don't use it, I just learned that using & in calling subs is old perl.
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      It isn't - it has a very specific meaning that most people don't intend. So, when they use it, it makes them look as if they coded in Perl4 where it did have the meaning most people intend.

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        Ah, I see. Thanks man :)
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