Perl 5.8.0 Released

twoshortplanks writes "The latest version of Perl has been released, with new features such as better Unicode support, a new threads implementation, new IO layer support, and a whole plethora of bundled modules - plus a wonderful collection of regression tests and new documentation. The release notes and links to mirrors for download are on dev.perl.org." This is not a release candidate, it's the real thing, representing over two years of work by patch pumpkin holder Jarkko Hietaniemi and his merry band. Hugo van der Sanden is the new pumpking for perl 5.10.

Comments

Re:Will it enforce readable code?

[Anonymous Coward]

My favorite quote on Perl:

"A Perl script looks like an explosion in an ASCII factory"

I know I saw it on /., but can't attribute it. Sorry.

Re:Time to upgrade?

[Piers Cawley]

If we're going to play perl golf...

#!perl -l
print rand<.5?"Definitely, yes":"Outlook cloudy"

Or we could go for weird

print for("Definitely, yes","Outlook cloudy")[rand 2]

Math class

[FattMattP]

Silly Pudge. 5.10 is less than 5.8. Didn't you take math classes?