It depends what you call "rather new". It was introduced in December 2007, when 5.10 hit the street. It's now April 2011, with 5.14-RC0 looming around the corner.
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> It depends what you call "rather new". It was introduced in December 2007, when 5.10 hit the street.
Hmm, for me: "System Perl available on a majority of running systems for more than 1 or 2 years".¹
So you have to add the average time span between system installations and lag of update into distributions for an approximation.
> More than 3 years, and the almost the life-span of 2 major releases - not something I would call "rather new".
I still do! Only a minority of users update their Perl to the newest release ASAP.
But I agree that it's only a weak "rather".
1) or in other words: If it doesn't work, you can blame the system admin!
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It's present in every Perl version that wasn't officially EOLed. Even 5.10 will be EOLed in a month, if I understand correctly.
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