Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases?

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Re: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by daxim (Curate) on Jul 27, 2012 at 16:04 UTC
http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html https://socialtext.net/perl5/history http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/vhll-slides.pdf	[reply]
Re^2: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2012 at 17:01 UTC
Thanks for the links, daxim. I should've been more specific: I'm more interested in the major modern changes and additions since 5.8. Sorry for not being specific enough. Some examples of what I'd like to know: When was given/when added? When was smart match added? Have there been any pragmas added which, when used, deprecate older less-recommended features? And the biggest, which I was unable to articulate until just now: What do the "`use 5.$X`" pragmas get me? Which features do they enable/disable? Thanks so much!	[reply]
Re^3: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by daxim (Curate) on Jul 27, 2012 at 18:07 UTC
5.10 5.10 The following (non-core!) pragmas disable some more or less unwanted aspects of Perl. autovivification bareword::filehandles circular::require indirect multidimensional stringification I probably forgot a few. Starting with 5.10, `use version` enables the feature pragma. Read that documentation carefully. So far, `feature` only enabled new stuff, or enabled stuff that was deprecated and removed. The semantics of `feature` are supposed to support disabling stuff, and I will be delighted to discover how future Perls handle this. Related: How can I test when a feature was added to Perl?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2012 at 18:20 UTC
Re^3: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jul 27, 2012 at 17:37 UTC
As an example: perl when was given/when added. It looks like the consensus is that it was added in 5.10. --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^3: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2012 at 18:08 UTC
Many of your questions are answered by the documentation for the feature pragma TJD	[reply]
Re^4: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2012 at 18:20 UTC
Re^3: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2012 at 02:41 UTC
Read the perldeltas / perldeltas - every perl*delta in one file	[reply]
Re: Summary of salient changes to Perl 5 between the major releases? by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 28, 2012 at 19:21 UTC
I'd say the big ones are: Perl 5.8 Decent Unicode Decent threading PerlIO layer Perl 5.10 Smart match operator Defined-or operator `given` and `when` `state` `say` Perl 5.12 Implicit strictures `each(@array)`, `keys(@array)`, `values(@array)` `package Foo::Bar 1.23;` Postfix form of `when` Yada-yada-yada operator Perl 5.14 `push $arrayref, @items`, etc `package Foo::Bar 1.23 { ... }` `s///r` Perl 5.16 `__SUB__` `fc` I've specifically ignored any new pragmata and core modules, as those are often also available on CPAN for older versions. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]