Better Perl

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 3 Apr 2008, at 21:14, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Aidan Samuel wrote:
>> Being a relative newbie, can I ask; were there similar levels of
>> controversy when Perl 5 was brewing?
>
> Not that I recall.
>
> If memory serves, I was able to run all my Perl 4 scripts under Perl 5
> and the only thing I had to change were a couple of double quoted  
> strings
> that had '@' in them, e.g. "abw at wardley.org" which  generates a  
> "possible
> interpolation..." warning in Perl 5 but didn't in Perl 4.


And we're back to perl6 isn't perl5++

/me looks forward to the release of perl 5.18...


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