New perl features?

[DAVID HODGKINSON]

Right. Been through that lot and have some bullet points ready.

Slideshare doesn't allow cut and paste. WTF?

Anyhow, it seems like I was fretting about very little. ~~ and //=
are the only new sigils and there's a LOT of evolution with Unicode,
docs, tests and allegedly, performance.

If I put up the bullets, would people feel like adding nice examples
of the features being used in the wild?



On 15 Mar 2013, at 12:39, Alex Balhatchet <kaoru at slackwise.net> wrote:

> On 15 March 2013 12:28, DAVID HODGKINSON <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a cookbook (no, not a manual) of shiny, useful new features
>> in perls since 5.8.8?
>> 
> 
> I think there's been a fairly consistent Perl Workshop or YAPC talk
> (and accompanying set of slides) each year that generally covers
> things.
> 
> Perl 5.10 (acme) - http://www.slideshare.net/acme/perl-510
> 
> Perl 5.12 (acme) - http://www.slideshare.net/acme/whats-new-inperl
> 
> Perl 5.14 (Andrew Shitov) -
> http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/whats-new-in-perl-514
> 
> Perl 5.16 (Pavel) http://www.slideshare.net/fxzuz/perl-516-new-features
> 
> 
> Not exactly a cookbook, but a good summary of the new features added.
> 
> Also I've been checking the perldelta files each time (eg.
> https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.16.3/pod/perl5160delta.pod)
> and I don't think any major release has made perl *slower*, so if your
> intention is to sell perl upgrades to management that's always a good
> line :-)
> 
> - Alex