Contents

• Perl 5 Release Timeline
• Perl 5 Debian Timeline
• 5.10 - Ancient history
• Defined-or
• D'Orcish Maneuver
• say
• features
• A switch statement!
• More advanced switching
• Smart matching
• PJF's Guessing Game
• Persistent Private Variables
• Pluggable Regex Engines
• Perl 5.10.1
• Life before 'autodie'
• Life with 'autodie'
• Exceptions from 'autodie'
• Regex: Named Captures
• Also in 5.10.1
• Perl 5.12.1
• When as Statement Modifier
• Package Version
• Yada Yada Operator
• Each Over Arrays
• Perl 5.12.1
• Perl 5.12.2
• Perl 5.12.3
• Perl 5.12.4
• Perl 5.14.0
• 'given' Returns Values
• Regex Changes
• Implicit Dereferencing
• IO::File Loaded On-Demand
• Package Block Syntax
• Exceptions
• New Core Modules
• New Archive::Tar
• Perl in Debian
• 64bit Integers on 32bit Hosts
• split to @_ removed
• UNIVERSAL->import deprecated
• Coming soon in 5.16
• Resources
• The End