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brockgr was the first to note that Perl 5.6.0 has been released and has begun propagating through
CPAN. Anyone have a changelog or something I can link to?
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Yes. subs now can have an attribute list, including attributes for thread safety, and lvalueness.
Matt. Want XML + Apache + Stylesheets? Get AxKit.
Yes, that's true...but it's highly unlikely that this is what most people are interested in.
What you really want to read is the file perldelta.pod, that comes with the distribution, and, I hope, will appear outside of it somewhere (at www.perl.com?) in the very near future. The Changelog is 1.4 MB of lore that literally logs everything done to perl source since the Bronze age (or sometime around there; I'd have to check). Not that it isn't entertaining or interesting if you've achieved some level of geekiness, but it doesn't give easy answers to questions most people have. :-)
Babar
Yeah, I was working on that one. It's availble here.
darren
Cthulhu for President!
(darren)
Just in case anyone was wondering, they went from Perl 5.005 to Perl 5.6 because they didn't want to release this as 5.006 as they figured many people may not understand the large significance of this release...
:)
/me waits eagerly for a woody deb.
EraseMe
As an aside, mod_perl 1.22 has been updated to work with Perl 5.6 (it was released last Wednesday). From the changelog:
compile fixes for 5.6 + -Duse5005threads
[Lincoln Stein ]
darren
Cthulhu for President!
(darren)
It's not the changelog per se, but What New in Perl 5.6 might be of interest.
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