Re: [MacPerl] What's new in version 5.005?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 10.42 -0500 1998.12.01, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>In looking at the installation for 5.005 I noticed that there was this
>message stating there were a very large number of changes between 5.004
>and 5.005.  Further, the message stated that everything which was in use
>with 5.004 would probably not work with 5.005.  Unfortunately, the
>message wasn't specific and I could not find any other documentation
>about this.  Anyone on this list know what the differences are?  Mainly
>the major ones.  :-)  TIA.

perldelta contains all the info.

    http://www.cpan.org/doc/manual/html/pod/perldelta.html

Or, of course, see the file pod/perldelta.pod in the distribution.  There
is a lot of good stuff there, but the most significant stuff is still kinda
experimental, at best: new re support, threads, and the compiler.  Most
everything else is either bugfixes, optimizations, minor additions, and
cleaning up.  This is all good stuff, just minor by themselves, and were it
not for the regex/threads/compiler, we might never have seen a 5.005.  :-)

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