Perl 5.12.1 is out, which is the sign that it’s time for normal users to pay attention to it: that first point release should have sanded down all the rough edges. As usual, the complete list of major changes is in the perldelta5.12.0 documentation, we’ll cover some more of the interesting features in The Effective Perler in the coming weeks. Our initial list of user-interesting features include:
use 5.012turns onstrictby defaulteachon arrayswhenas a statement modifier- locally
deletehash keys or array values - 32-bit limit on
substrremoved - The new deprecation warnings
- Use the \N regex character class to get “not a newline”
If there are some other Perl 5.12 features that you’d like us to cover, leave a comment telling us what it is and why you’re curious about it.
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