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Version 5.40.0 of the Perl language has been released. “Perl 5.40.0
“. Significant changes include a new __CLASS__
represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.38.0 and
contains approximately 160,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files from 75
authors
keyword, a :reader: attribute for field variables, a new
“^^” logical-XOR operator (because two of those were not enough),
moving “try/catch” out of the experimental category, and more; see
this
page for lots of details.