What's happening with Perl in the last week.
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perldelta - what is new for perl v5.30.2 This document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the 5.30.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.30.0, first read perl5301delta, which describes differences…
The Perl ShopSteve Hay (SHAY) has released Perl 5.30.2, a production release. It represents 4 months of dev since Perl 5.30.1 and contains approximately 2,100 lines of changes across 110 files from 15 authors. This is primarily for bug fixes.
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.31.10 This document describes differences between the 5.31.9 release and the 5.31.10 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.31.8, first read perl5319delta, which describes differences…
The Perl ShopSawyer X has released Perl 5.31.10, a development release of #Perl that 'represents 4 weeks of dev since 5.31.9 and contains 17K lines of changes.' It adds using the Unicode Name property in REs and chained comparisons capability.
When working on preparing data for the covid.observer site, I discovered a couple of interesting findings, which I did not notice earlier or did not pay much attention to it. The first construct allows us to scan two different arrays in a single…
The Perl ShopAndrew Shitov points out some 'syntax sweets' in Raku, like using the Z meta-operator to iterate over two lists simultaneously
The Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) won't be happening this year. It had been planned for Vienna, so we're hoping that PTS 2021 will be held in Vienna. We had wondered about delaying it, or seeing whether there's interest in a virtual PTS, but right…
The Perl ShopThe Perl Toolchain Summit has been canceled for 2020.
Latest releases New distributions Recent Favorites Popular Distributions Weekly Yearly All Time Recent Uploads River gauge Release Test-DependentModules-0.27 Test all modules which depend on your module 19 Jan 2019 22:15:21 GMT…
The Perl ShopImportant updates at CPAN last week include Alien-Build-2.17, Alien-Libxml2-0.15, Encode-3.05, XML-LibXML-2.0204, Type-Tiny-1.010001, Pod-Usage-1.70, Specio-0.46, Test-Warnings-0.029.
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