Look for perldelta. There have been changes. They may or may not affect you.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Levenglick Dov-RM07994 <[email protected]> wrote: > I assume (based on past experience) that everything that worked in 5.6 also > works in 5.8. does this assumption hold for 5.10? > > > Best Regards, > Dov Levenglick > SmartDSP OS Development Leader > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Gaal Yahas > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 13:58 > To: Perl in Israel > Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] Perl 5.8.x vs. 5.10.x > > 5.10 has a revamped regexp engine. It's faster and has more features. > > There's some differences in the way Unicode is handled. Newer Perls > make more sense, probably, but if you have something that works in 5.6 > you should test it a bit when migrating to 5.10. > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Levenglick Dov-RM07994 > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> Other than somewhat forward compatibility to Perl 6, is there added value in >> installing 5.10.x? Are there drawbacks given code originally written for >> 5.6.x? >> >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Dov Levenglick >> ΓΌ SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >> > > > > -- > Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> > http://gaal.livejournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl -- Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> http://gaal.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
