Re: Changes to PERL

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I looked at perl$$$$delta -- Nothing useful there.
I am mainly interested in changes to system vars, and syntax.

At least I know my books are still useful.

Thanks

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:29 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
<andreas.kahari%abc.se@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 05:10:41PM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > Where is a good place to look for current PERL syntax and examples?
> > (been about 10yrs).
> >
> > Which books should be updated first?
> > (I have 4 of the O'Reilly PERL books)
>
> The perldelta manuals comes to mind:
>
>         perldoc perldelta
>
> This will show you the changes between the current and the last release
> of Perl. It will also tell you (in the DESCRIPTION section) what the
> previous perldelta manual is called (something like perl5301delta, for
> the changes between Perl 5.30.0 and 5.30.1 for example).
>
> This might not be exactly what you were looking for, but it's what
> popped up in my mind at least.  Apart from that, "perldoc perl" contains
> the list of other Perl manuals, for example perlintro.
>
> --
> Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
> SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
> Uppsala University, Sweden
>
> .