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.