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Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes

([Programming] 4 Hours Ago Perl 5.42)


Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release.

Perl 5.42 ships with Unicode 16.0 support, new experimental features of the "any" and "all" operators for list processing, a new ":writer" attribute for field variables, more CORE:: subroutines like "chdir", a new "source::encoding" pragma, various performance enhancements, security fixes, and a variety of other changes.

Among the performance changes in Perl 5.32 are making constant-folded strings shareable with the copy-on-write mechanism, faster tr/// speed, and various other optimizations. Many Perl modules have also seen updates for today's Perl 5.42 release.

More details on the Perl 5.42 changes can be found from the prior [1]RC1 notes . Perl 5.42 can be downloaded from [2]Perl.org .



[1] https://metacpan.org/release/CONTRA/perl-5.42.0-RC1/view/pod/perldelta.pod

[2] https://www.perl.org/get.html


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We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was
also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her
boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the
bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad
rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished
there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...]
"Stop the car," the girl said.
There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the
woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an
arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway
belle's for thee."
The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie.
Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey
onto my granola and faced a new day.
-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway
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