Perl 5.6
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Finally got around to reading about the new features of perl 5.6. Being a bit of a perl nut, some of the new features really tickled my fancy.
By far my favourite new feature is weak references, which looks like it might be an effective asprin to memory-leak headaches. (Use only as directed. If pain persists, please see your debugger.)
The new our syntax for global various is very cute, and I like it a lot. Using subroutines as lvalues seems weird and bizzare, incredibly powerful, and slightly dangerous.
Finance::Quote
Brent made
a number of excellent changes to Finance::Quote,
particularly in relation to his TIAA-CREF function, and has
even added regression testing checks for his changes. I'm
now quite certain we're going to get along well as a
development team. :)
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