"G.W. Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
>
>
> > Is Perl 5.6 really the "stable" release?
>
> According to the Perl developers it is. Odd minor version numbers
> now indicate development versions, so the next "stable" release should
> be 5.8.x
Perl 5.6.1 should be out in a couple of weeks or so.
perl-5.6.1-TRIAL3.tar.gz is currently available on CPAN if you're
feeling keen.
5.6.0 has a couple of nasty bugs for which patches are available -
see the list archives. One (IIRC) concerns scalars getting the wrong values
when concatenated after being evaluated in both numeric and string contexts;
the other causes coredumps when doing backtraces, which broke HTML::Mason.
After adding these patches, I've been using 5.6.0 in production for
about 9 months now.
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