Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults

guest · Jun 24, 2020

Perl 7 Announced As Evolving Perl 5 With Modern Defaults
June 24, 2020
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Perl 7 basically amounts to Perl 5 with more modern defaults and foregoing some of the extensive backward compatibility support found with Perl 5. News of Perl 7 comes a few days after the release of Perl 5.32.
Perl 7 succeeds Perl 5 due to the Perl 6 initiative previously for what is now known as the Raku programming language. So to avoid confusion, similar to the PHP 6 debacle, Perl 7 is the next version.
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For details on what is expected to be dropped and added by Perl 7, see this article on Perl.com looking at all at what was announced at this week's conference. For the most part though Perl 7 is close to Perl 5.32 with changed defaults and is more forward looking with less commitment to backward compatibility support.
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Perl: Announcing Perl 7

This morning at The Perl Conference in the Cloud, Sawyer X announced that Perl has a new plan moving forward. Work on Perl 7 is already underway, but it’s not going to be a huge change in code or syntax. It’s Perl 5 with modern defaults and it sets the stage for bigger changes later. My latest book Preparing for Perl 7 goes into much more detail.
What’s happening to Perl 5?
No one is taking Perl 5 away from you; it goes into long term maintenance mode—a lot longer than the two years of rolling support for the two latest user versions. That might be up to a decade from now (or half the time Perl 5 has already been around).
The bottom line
Perl 7 is v5.32 with different settings. Your code should work if it’s not a mess. Expect a user release within a year.
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