Re^7: A curious case of of my() (What is GLOBAL?)

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.

More than 3 years, and the almost the life-span of 2 major releases - not something I would call "rather new".

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Re^8: A curious case of of my() (rather new feature) by LanX (Saint) on Apr 05, 2011 at 14:09 UTC
> 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".š 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". Cheers Rolf 1) or in other words: If it doesn't work, you can blame the system admin!	[reply]

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Re^8: A curious case of of my() (rather new feature)
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 05, 2011 at 14:09 UTC

> 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".š

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".

Cheers Rolf

1) or in other words: If it doesn't work, you can blame the system admin!

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