Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:09:44 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl-5.10.0 in FBSD-7.0 Message-ID: <479871F8.9070305@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200801241116.26872.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <20080123123511.3177137c@scorpio> <47979341.1000100@FreeBSD.org> <200801241116.26872.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 21:19, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Historically, new versions of perl are a recipe for large amounts of >> pain because of all the old perl code that stops working. > > I haven't used perl 5.10 yet, but looking at the changes (available at > <http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod>), and in > particular the section headed ``incompatible changes'', it looks like a small > number of odd corners (for example, chdir FOO - unquoted argument now treated > as filehandle not directory name) rather than a wholesale change like perl > 5.8, which was binary-incompatible with earlier perls and therefore required > any modules using the XS interface to C code to be recompiled. > > Perl 5.10 does introduce a couple of new operators (defined-or, spelt //, and > smart-match, spelt ~~), and a number of enhancements which have to be > switched on using the ``feature'' pragma - most of these changes have > filtered back from the Perl 6 effort. Time will tell ;-) A single failure deep in the ports tree is enough to ruin the day of thousands of users. Kris
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