Perl 5.10

Perl . Léon Brocard London Perl Workshop

Me Léon Brocard French, live in London Like food Like the colour orange Founded Amsterdam.pm, Bath.pm, Croydon.pm Now leader of London.pm Started YAPC::Europe perl hacker

Releases - - Perl - - Perl - - Perl - - Perl - - Perl ... Perl is years old Perl is years old

Perl releases - - Perl - - Perl . - - Perl . - - Perl . - - Perl . - - Perl . - - Perl . . - - Perl . . - - Perl . . - - Perl . .

Perl . New features

Perl . New feature use feature ’say’; use feature ’state’; use feature ’switch’; ... use feature ’:5.10’;

Say operator Just like print, but implicitly appends a newline use feature ’say’; say ’Hello!’;

State operator Persistent private variables use feature ’state’; sub gimme_another { state $x; return ++$x }

Smart match operator $a ~~ /foo/ @a ~~ /foo/ $a ~~ @b $a ~~ %b ...

Switch and smart match operator use feature ’switch’; given ($foo) { when (/^abc/) { $abc = 1; } when (/^def/) { $def = 1; } when (/^xyz/) { $xyz = 1; } default { $nothing = 1; } }

Switch and smart match operator use feature ":5.10"; given($foo) { when (undef) { say ’$foo is undefined’; } when ("foo") { say ’$foo is the string "foo"’; } when ([1,3,5,7,9]) { say ’$foo is an odd digit’; continue; # Fall through } when ($_ < 100) { say ’< 100’; } when (&complicated_check) { say ’a complicated check for $foo is true’; } default { die ’Eeeeek’; } }

De ned-or operator $a // $b defined $a ? $a : $b $c //= $d; $c = $d unless defined $c;

Regular expressions Recursive patterns Named capture bu ers Possessive quanti ers Backtracking control verbs Relative backreferences Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak

Named capture bu ers use feature ’say’; my $time = ’Time: 01:02:03’; if ($time =~ /Time:s(d+):(d+):(d+)/) { say "$1 / $2 / $3"; } if ($time =~ /Time:s(?<hours>d+): (?<minutes>d+):(?<seconds>d+)/x) { say "$+{hours} / $+{minutes} / $+{seconds}"; }

New modules Archive::Extract, Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPANPLUS, Digest::SHA, encoding::warnings, ExtUtils::CBuilder, ExtUtils::ParseXS, File::Fetch, Hash::Util::FieldHash, IO::Zlib, IPC::Cmd, Locale::Maketext::Simple, Log::Message, Log::Message::Simple, Math::BigInt::FastCalc, Module::Build, Module::CoreList, Module::Load, Module::Load::Conditional, Module::Loaded, Module::Pluggable, Object::Accessor, Package::Constants, Params::Check, Pod::Escapes, Pod::Simple, Term::UI, Time::Piece, Win32API::File.

New documentation perlpragma — How to write a user pragma perlglossary — Perl Glossary perlreguts — Regular expression engine internals perlreapi — Regular expression plugin interface perlunitut — Perl Unicode Tutorial perlunifaq — Perl Unicode FAQ perlcommunity — Overview of the Perl community CORE — Pseudo-namespace for Perl’s core routines

Performance enhancements In-place sorting Lexical array access XS-assisted SWASHGET Constant subroutines PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV Weak references are cheaper sort() enhancements Memory optimisations UTF- cache optimisation Sloppy stat on Windows Regular expressions optimisations

Deprecations Pseudo-hashes have been removed Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc Removal of the JPL

Other Lexical $_, _ prototype, UNITCHECK blocks, mro pragma, readpipe() is now overridable, default argument for readline(), UNIVERSAL::DOES(), formats, byte-order modi ers for pack() and unpack(), no VERSION, chdir, chmod, chown on lehandles, OS groups, recursive sort subs, exceptions in constant folding, source lters in @INC, new internal variables, UCD . . , Miscellaneous Attribute Decoration, con guration improvements, compilation improvements, relocatable installations, nicer internals bison-based parser . . .

Perl . . Many bug xes: @_ Optimised internals: isa()

New features, modules DTrace support autodie Compress::Raw::Bzip parent Parse::CPAN::Meta

Platform updates AIX Cygwin FreeBSD Irix Haiku MirOS BSD NetBSD Stratus VOS Symbian Win VMS

Feature tweaks given/when switch smart match

Deprecations Switch suidperl

Internal changes Moved from Perforce to Git Changed directory structure

Better quotes e J.R.R. Tolkien quotes at the head of each C source le have been checked and proper citations added

More tests Perl . , core tests (+ , more for bundled libraries) Perl . . , core tests (+ , more for bundled libraries) Perl . . , core tests (+ , more for bundled libraries)

Recent past and future Perl . . : Léon Brocard on Nov , Perl . . : Jesse Vincent on Dec , Perl . . : Ricardo Signes on Jan , Perl . . : Steve Hay on Feb , Perl . . : Ask Bjørn Hansen on Mar , ... Perl . : Jesse Vincent early

Use Perl . now! Perl . is faster Perl . uses less memory Perl . has more features Perl . is backwards compatible

Perl 5.10

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