Perl 5.14
I've only now realised that Perl 5.14 had been released this weekend. Yay!!
After reading perldelta I'm quite impressed with all the new features etc. I especially like these three:
- Non-destructive substitution
- Arrayand hash container functions accept references
- given return values
I'm looking forward to installing the new version in the next few days! (why not now, you might ask: because I sort of broke my left ring finger while doing some shadow boxing with my son, which makes typing a bit complicated)
Just in case you like to know, I'm currently full-time father of 2 kids,
half-time Perl hacker, sort-of DJ, bicyclist, no
longer dreadlocked and more than 34 years old but too lazy to update my profile once a year.
I'm also head of Vienna.pm, no longer maintainer of the CPANTS project, member of the TPF Grants Commitee and the YAPC Europe Foundation.
I've got stuff on CPAN, held
various talks and organise the Austrian Perl Workshops and YAPC::Europe 2007.
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