These items are in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. Unicode 14 use v5.36 now disables indirect and multidimensional switch removed from v5.36 feature bundle Pure booleans use v5.36 enables warnings More paired delimiters finally blocks subroutine … Continue reading "Perl v5.36 new features"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. Perl v5.36 disables by default a Perl 3 feature that you may have never seen, which I’ll cover in the next section. In a single-element access … Continue reading "Goodbye fake multidimensional data structures"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. We’re almost at the end of the tragic saga of given-when, a feature added in v5.10. It lost the lexical $_ in v5.24 after that feature … Continue reading "switch removed from the v5.36 feature bundle"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. So far, Perl has not had special boolean values. Perl doesn’t even have a strictly true value; it has specified false values (0, '0', empty string, … Continue reading "Know if something is a boolean"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content. Perl v5.36 adds the -g switch as a shortcut for -0777, which undefines the input record separator so you can read an entire file as a … Continue reading "Slurp a file from the command line with -g"| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content.| The Effective Perler
This is a chapter in Perl New Features, a book from Perl School that you can buy on LeanPub or Amazon. Your support helps me to produce more content.| The Effective Perler