I mostly agree. Certainly perlmonks is the one forum that should be encouraging the use of the latest features which is why I listed both solutions here and qualified newer with dirty quotes.

However, I find helping people upgrade their perl or install cpan modules to be completely uninteresting. I'd rather just suggest a core library that does the job than bother with trying to get some person in India to install a more helpful cpan module. Maybe it's laziness on my part, but it's also about ROI of my time.

It'd be cool if we had some statistics on what the development environment is for recent posters. At what point will the 5.8'ers be less significant percentage? I have a feeling it will be a while though, as I still come by people using 5.6 on other forums.