On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:

> Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
> > On 2009-09-01, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> >>>> Sorry if I'm being dense: is the Emacs cperl-mode.el out of sync with
> >>>> Ilya's version?
>
> [...]
>
> >> Sorry, I don't know the answer, but I'm in favor of using the 5.10
> >> highlighting if it must be one or the other.  I doubt the difference
> >> will matter enough to most users, and those who do will probably prefer
> >> 5.10.
> >
> > Why?  Myself, I did not see 5.10 yet...  (Oups, no.  In fact I do have a
> > copy of a binary distribution somewhere on the drive...  It is unzipped,
> but
> > not installed.)
>
> Debian/stable ships with Perl 5.10.  It is fairly commonly turning up in
> similar new releases, such as MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and other Linux
> distributions.
>
>
Most distributions are shipping Perl 5.10. Perl 5.10.0 is out for more than
one year. Perl 5.10.1 is out for a week or so. They are two of the best Perl
releases ever (not buggy).

Cheers
Alberto
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Alberto Simões