<rant> I really wish web hosting providers and shell
account providers would upgrade to 5.6. It is really
annoying have to put up with tons of syntax errors. </rant>
Anyway, 5.6 introduces our() declares in
addition to my() which, as far as I know,
removes the need for use vars or whatever
ugly mechanism global vars were achieved by previously.
I've also had
print for @foo;
throw up tons of errors in older versions of Perl, and
having to change this to
for (@foo) {
print;
}
is a pain, needless to say. As others have mentioned, 5.6
also includes Unicode capabilities which is interesting. BTW,
on a vaguely off-topic note, is anyone else seriously looking forward
to when the whole DNS system uses unicode?