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What happened to Perl 7? | Perl Steering Council

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 26th of May 2022 02:38:58 AM Filed under
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With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This post is to fill that gap.

Two years ago Perl 7 was announced. A key idea for Perl 7 was to significantly reduce the boilerplate needed at the top of your code, by enabling a lot of widely used modules / pragmas, but this would have come at the price of breaking some backwards compatibility. This would have meant that some existing code wouldn't have worked without modification.

This prompted a lot of heated discussions: some thought this was a great idea, and some thought it a terrible idea to throw away one of Perl's key strengths. Ultimately this led to a discussion about who had the right to make this decision, now that Larry is no longer involved in Perl (and hasn't been for about 20 years). The end result of all those discussions was a new governance structure.

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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 27th of May 2022 06:43:40 AM.
  • What happened to Perl 7?

    Two years ago Perl 7 was announced. A key idea for Perl 7 was to significantly reduce the boilerplate needed at the top of your code, by enabling a lot of widely used modules / pragmas, but this would have come at the price of breaking some backwards compatibility. This would have meant that some existing code wouldn't have worked without modification.

Stable release too

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 30th of May 2022 05:25:55 PM.
  • Perl 5.36.0 released [LWN.net]

    Version 5.36.0 of the Perl language is out. "Perl 5.36.0 represents approximately a year of development since Perl 5.34.0 and contains approximately 250,000 lines of changes across 2,000 files from 82 authors." Changes include the enabling of function signatures, Unicode 14.0 support, experimental iteration over multiple values, and a lot more; see the release notes for the full list.

Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 1st of June 2022 08:57:03 PM.
  • Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7

    The much-anticipated Perl 7 continues to twinkle in the distance although the final release of 5.36.0 is "just around the corner", according to the Perl Steering Council.

    Well into its fourth decade, the fortunes of Perl have ebbed and flowed over the years. Things came to a head last year, with the departure of former "pumpking" Sawyer X, following what he described as community "hostility."

    Part of the issue stemmed from the planned version 7 release, a key element of which, according to a post by the steering council "was to significantly reduce the boilerplate needed at the top of your code, by enabling a lot of widely used modules / pragmas."

    It all sounds wonderful, but the price would have been the breaking of some backwards compatibility, meaning that some code targeting earlier versions of the programming language would have needed changing.

    "This prompted a lot of heated discussions," said the council. "Some thought this was a great idea, and some thought it a terrible idea to throw away one of Perl's key strengths."

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