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Perl can do that now!

Mark Gardner on May 25, 2021

Last week saw the release of Perl 5.34.0 (you can get it here), and with it comes a year’s worth of new features, performance enhancements, bug fix...
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Tib

Very very good summary, quickly I like the //=, pluggable, chained operators, try/catch, the move to github, the signatures, isa, the slices... Actually I like a lot of them :)

I would have mentionned the removal of . even if it's probably not the favorite of anyone 😀

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Mark Gardner • Edited

Oh, you mean the removal of . in @INC? Yah, that would've taken a bit of explaining about the ramifications though, and I wanted to focus on added features.

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Tib

👍

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I-dodo

Very cool!