info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed

sergstesh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been performing WEB search on perl-5.12.0 anonymous packages (the release announcement says it supports them), but couldn't find anything relevant.

I also looked for the info at perldoc.perl.org .

Does anybody have concrete pointers ?

Thanks,
Sergei.

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Re: info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Apr 29, 2010 at 19:38 UTC
the release announcement says it supports them Are you sure? When I search the release announcement for "package", I find exactly three hits in two lines: New syntax allows developers to specify package version numbers directly in "package" statements As specified in the licenses for Perl (see the files named Artistic or Copying in the Perl distribution), THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.	[reply]
Re^2: info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed by sergstesh (Novice) on Apr 29, 2010 at 19:42 UTC
Yes, I am sure. For example, http://freshmeat.net/projects/perl#release_315792 : " Changes: This release introduces several new features, such as caller(), anonymous packages, named parameters, the Yada Yada operator, and pluggable keywords. "	[reply]
Re^3: info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 29, 2010 at 19:51 UTC
I think that whoever wrote the summary for freshmeat was mis-informed. In the official announcement I don't find anything like that, neither in the perl5120delta document, the tests or even the commit messages of the git repository. Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply]
Re^4: info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed by sergstesh (Novice) on Apr 29, 2010 at 20:02 UTC
Re: info on anonymous packages in perl-5.12.0 needed by webfiend (Vicar) on Apr 30, 2010 at 16:25 UTC
I did a little searching, and did find a proposal from 2008 about anonymous packages for 5.11/5.12. It doesn't look like anything came from that proposal, though. Whoever originally posted about anonymous packages being a new feature seems to have been misinformed.	[reply]