Perl 5.22 Released

kthreadd writes: Version 5.22 of the Perl programming language has just been released. A major new feature in this release is the double diamond operator; like the regular diamond operator it allows you to quickly read through files specified on the command line but does this in a much safer way by not evaluating special characters in the file names. Other new features include hexadecimal floating point numbers, improved variable aliasing and a nicer syntax for repetition in list assignment. Also, historical Perl modules CGI.pm and Module::Build are removed from the core distribution.

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Re:News that matters!

[plopez]

Oblig:

BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time;
        open spell book; study; read (spell, $scan, select); tell us;
write it, print the hex while each watches,
        reverse length, write again;
                      kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
                            unlink arms, shift, wait and listen (listening, wait).
sort the flock (then, warn "the goats", kill "the sheep");
        kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
                      values aside, each one;
                              die sheep; die (to, reverse the => system
                                            you accept (reject, respect));
next step,
        kill next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
                      wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
        do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
return last victim; package body;
        exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it.
                      select (quickly) and warn next victim;
AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.
        wait, wait until time;
                      wait until next year, next decade;
                              sleep, sleep, die yourself,
                                            die @last

use the 4's

[Anonymous Coward]

$ perl -e 'print 0xC3P0'
195
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