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Perl 5.36 Released - What's New?

 Perl 5.36 was recently released and while we await Perl 7 it comes with many great features.


First of all borrowing from Perl's 7 philosophy, 5.36 comes with modern and sensible defaults. That is, use 5.36; loads pragmas and features already being advised for years to programmers writing in Perl, like turning strict and warnings on, use 5.010 or importing Modern::Perl, which are now going to be set by default when you start writing a new program under this version. 


According to Ricardo Signes, that directive in place does the following:


full article on i-programmer:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/15502-perl-536-released-whats-new.html


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