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Perl 7 launches

([Development] Jun 24, 2020 17:14 UTC (Wed) (corbet))


The Perl project has [1]announced the upcoming release of Perl 7. Unlike Perl 6, though, this is not a radical departure, yet at least: " Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but with different, saner, more modern defaults. You won’t have to enable most of the things you are already doing because they are enabled for you. The major version jump sets the boundary between how we have been doing things and what we can do in the future. " The plan is to have a Perl 7 release " within the next year ".



[1] https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/

Perl 7 launches

For a second I had to check the date.

Perl 7 launches

For a second I had to check the date.

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