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Re: Is auto-dereferencing worth forcing upgrades to newer versions of Perl? (no)

by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 15, 2013 at 13:13 UTC ( [id://1049585]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Is auto-dereferencing worth forcing upgrades to newer versions of Perl?

I feel no. This feature is tiny spec of sugar (for super noobs) , and sugar is no good reason to upgrade :)

If you want a reason to upgrade, better threading/unicode support is what its about.

For the noobs, see references quick reference

http://www.citrusperl.com/, http://www.cavapackager.com/

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