Re: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

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.

I presume that *BSD and other commercial platforms will follow suit in the
next year or so.

While Perl 5.10 features may not be in wide use yet, I think the version
itself is fairly common these days.

Regards,
        Daniel
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