Perl 5.8.0rc1 changelogs. What are you most excited about?

2002-06-03 Thread Ron Powell
Heya, I just read this article -- http://use.perl.org/articles/02/06/01/1944202.shtml?tid=6 http://use.perl.org/articles/02/06/01/1944202.shtml?tid=6 Being very new to perl, I don't understand what impact most of these changes will have, but I'm particularly interested in the addition of the

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2002-06-03 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Ron Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 6:23 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Perl 5.8.0rc1 changelogs. What are you most excited about? Heya, I just read this article -- http://use.perl.org/articles/02/06/01/1944202

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2002-06-03 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 06:23 , Ron Powell wrote: Heya, I just read this article -- http://use.perl.org/articles/02/06/01/1944202.shtml?tid=6 http://use.perl.org/articles/02/06/01/1944202.shtml?tid=6 Being very new to perl, I don't understand what impact most of these changes will

Re: Perl 5.8.0rc1 changelogs. What are you most excited about?

2002-06-03 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 07:53 , Jason Frisvold wrote: Am I in the dark here? I thought the latest stable was 5.6.1? What's with 5.7.x?? I know 5.8.x is brandy new... And 6.x is apparently going to be the new god to follow... hence why I have not worried about going to 5.7.X yet

Re: Perl 5.8.0rc1 changelogs. What are you most excited about?

2002-06-03 Thread David T-G
Jason, et al -- ...and then drieux said... % % On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 07:53 , Jason Frisvold wrote: % % Am I in the dark here? I thought the latest stable was 5.6.1? % What's with 5.7.x?? I know 5.8.x is brandy new... And 6.x is % apparently going to be the new god to follow...

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2002-06-03 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 08:43 , David T-G wrote: [..] If you want to stay up to speed, all you have to have are N.even.highest and you're there, and you don't have to worry about an interface changing or something breaking from one day to the next as you would with good old (well, new

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2002-06-03 Thread Nikola Janceski
- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:24 PM To: begin begin Subject: but what about 5.5.3 was Re: Perl 5.8.0rc1 changelogs. What are you most excited about? On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 08:43 , David T-G wrote: [..] If you want to stay up to speed, all

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2002-06-03 Thread David T-G
drieux -- ...and then drieux said... % % On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 08:43 , David T-G wrote: % [..] % If you want to stay up to speed, all you have to have are % N.even.highest % and you're there, and you don't have to worry about an interface changing % or something breaking from one day to

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2002-06-03 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 10:08 , David T-G wrote: [..] % I think a lot of us were pushing production perl code out the % door with 5.5.3 - because we needed the features that were there Whoops! Sorry; the change to this numbering system was with 5.6; 5.005 was production, too. Read