The C++ of scripting languages
Nice to see that the developers of Perl are still solving the important problems:
say() is a new built-in, only available when
use feature 'say'
is in effect, that is similar to print(), but that implicitly appends a newline to the printed string.A new prototype character has been added.
_
is equivalent to$
but defaults to$_
if the corresponding argument isn’t supplied.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that made me give up on Perl. And mro is a pretty horrible new feature too.