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Perl 5.20 got function signatures. The community was pretty stoked about that.
by garfieldnate 9y ago
Perl 5.20 got function signatures. The community was pretty stoked about that.
- SwellJoe 9y agoYeah, but as I mentioned, it is not realistic to use them for installable software, yet. At least not for my needs; we're building software that needs to be easily installable on the leading server distros; we can't ask a million or two people to upgrade their Perl before installing our software. So, I'm excited about it, too, but I can't use them until CentOS/RHEL 7 reaches end of life (and that's assuming CentOS/RHEL 8 gets a 5.20+ version of Perl, which isn't an entirely safe assumption). It's easy to blame CentOS/RHEL for this, because they ship an old-as-heck Perl version, but it's also reasonable to question why it took 20+ years for Perl to get function signatures in the core language.