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Thanks Limbic~Region. That's the kind of stuff I was looking to hear. I had thought I'd heard that 5.9.4 was a release candidate, but it seems not.

I've been playing with some stuff, on and off for a couple of years now, that really needs some of the new features in 5.10 to be viable. I just encountered something on the web that brought it to the top of the stack and the thought again crossed my mind.

People have been talking about some of the new features for a very long time now, the earliest reference I found to defined-or was 49 months ago, but it was a half-hearted search and I'd be very surprised if it didn't go back a year or two before that. Seems almost as if they are waiting for something?

Still, I guess the onion will be cooked (5 minutes to fry; 15 if you want to caramelise without burning; 20 to boil; 25 to roast;) when it's cooked.

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Re^3: 5.10 imminent?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Apr 12, 2007 at 21:35 UTC

    Regarding defined-or, you can find patches for pretty well every modern perl in H. Merijn Brand's directory on CPAN.

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      Thanks for addressing my OP. The whole smoke testing thing is really a side issue. I was not trying to hurry the process of releasing 5.10, just enquiring as to when it was likely to be.

      Patches are great for those who build their own binaries. From my best guess, that is about 10-15% of perl's installed base.

      But getting back to my OP, defined-or was just an example, possibly the oldest, of the new features that I would like to use. In particular, the new mechanism that allows the addition of new, scoped keywords is of particular interest. Specifically, I would like to continue my experiments, starting with the sources of a new release that incorporates those new features, and all the (I believe fairly extensive), source code changes that underlie them. The critical part for my purposes is starting from a known, fixed, meaningful point. A new release would fit the bill nicely.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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