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No kidding!? I figured it would be a feature in Perl6, but I didn't know it was already out. We're on 5.8.5 at our site and when I asked for an upgrade the guy who's in charge of the sitewide perl installs said he'd prefer to wait for 5.9 to become stable. He says there is not much of a payoff to move to a higher 5.8.x release.

This was last month...5.9 (with named captcha) isn't stable by any chance, is it?

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Re^4: $1, etc. are not just strings
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 18, 2007 at 06:17 UTC
    This was last month...5.9 (with named captcha) isn't stable by any chance, is it?
    No. 5.9.x is a development series leading up to the stable 5.10. At this point I'd be shocked if 5.10 weren't out this year, and seeing at least a release candidate this quarter seems likely to me.