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Issue #708 - 2025-02-17 - Perl is growing...
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Hi there, There are many interpretations of what it means to grow? I am using the term for new features. We get lots of improvements and new features with every release of Perl. In v5.38, the experimental class feature was rolled out in core. In the next maintenance release of Perl v5.40, new field attribute :reader was added and many other improvements. The next thing, we all waited was for field attribute :writer. Luckily it is already part of development release v5.41.7. I made this gist demonstrating the core changes. If you are new to Perl Release Policy then there are two types of release i.e. Maintenance and Development. The even numbers are reserved for the maintenance release e.g. v5.38, v5.40 whereas odd numbers are for the development release e.g. v5.39, v5.41. The maintenance release are mostly production ready. If you are interested in release history then please checkout the version history page. I found an interesting proposal with regard to the version number. Recently, I got to try the different facets of parallel and concurrent programming. Please find below the list covered so far.
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by Nerdvana This is a continuation of a series of articles about how to write XS libraries that are more convenient and foolproof for the Perl users, while not blocking them from using the actual C API. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Count Common" and "Decode XOR" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Ali Moradi Apart from Perl magics, there is CPAN gem, Data::Show, used as well. Cool, keep it up great work. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas It is one post where we get Perl and Raku magic together. On top, we have detailed discussion, incredible. |
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by Jorg Sommrey Compact solutions in Perl and PDL. New to PDL? You must check it out. |
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by W Luis Mochan The post reminded me of good old Truth Table, very handy to cover the test cases. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Matthias Muth Lots of mathematical magic shared with this week contribution. Bitwise operation is always tricky. Well done. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Great detailed XOR operation is very interesting, and definitely not to be missed. Thanks for the contributions. |
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by Robbie Hatley Simple and straight forward approach makes it so easy to decode. Nice work, thanks for sharing. |
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by Robert McIntosh Clever use of set in Raku and Python, ended up one-liner. Keep it up great work. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) My personal favourite Postscript one-liner is USP of the post. Highly recommended. |
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by Simon Green Python makes me fall in love again and again. Incredibly powerful and easy to follow. Well done and keep it up. |
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