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NAME¶
perlexperiment - A listing of experimental features in Perl
DESCRIPTION¶
This document lists the current and past experimental features in the perl core. Although all of these are documented with their appropriate topics, this succinct listing gives you an overview and basic facts about their status.
So far I've merely tried to find and list the experimental features and infer their inception, versions, etc. There's a lot of speculation here.
Current experiments¶
- fork() emulation
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.1
See also perlfork
- Weak references
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
- Internal file glob
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
Accepted in XXX
- 64-bit support
- Introduced in Perl 5.005
Accepted in XXX
- die accepts a reference
- Introduced in Perl 5.005
Accepted in Perl XXX
- Unicode support
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
Accepted in Perl 5.8.0 XXX
- -Dusemultiplicity -Dusethreads
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
- Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
- Introduced in Perl 5.7.0
- GetOpt::Long Options can now take multiple values at once (experimental)
- "Getopt::Long" upgraded to version 2.35
Removed in Perl 5.8.8
- 5.005-style threading
- Introduced in Perl 5.005
Removed in Perl 5.10 XXX
- Test::Harness::Straps
- Removed in Perl 5.10.1
- perlcc
- Introduced in Perl 5.005
Removed in Perl 5.9.0
- "our" can now have an experimental optional attribute "unique"
- Introduced in Perl 5.8.0
Deprecated in Perl 5.10.0
- Assertions
- The "-A" command line switch
Introduced in Perl 5.9.0
Removed in Perl 5.9.5
- Linux abstract Unix domain sockets
- Introduced in Perl 5.9.2
See also Socket
- Pod::HTML2Pod
- Pod::PXML
- threads
- The <:pop> IO pseudolayer
- See also perlrun
- The <:win32> IO pseudolayer
- See also perlrun
- MLDBM
- See also perldsc
- internal functions with M flag
- See also perlguts
- lex_start API
- Introduced in Perl 5.13.7
- internal API for %H
- Introduced in Perl 5.13.7
See also "cophh_" in perlapi.
- av_create_and_push
- av_create_and_unshift_one
- av_create_and_unshift_one
- PL_keyword_plugin
- hv_iternext_flags
- lex_bufutf8
- lex_discard_to
- lex_grow_linestr
- lex_next_chunk
- lex_peek_unichar
- lex_read_space
- lex_read_to
- lex_read_unichar
- lex_stuff_pv
- lex_stuff_pvn
- lex_stuff_pvs
- lex_stuff_sv
- lex_unstuff
- parse_fullstmt
- parse_stmtseq
- PL_parser->bufend
- PL_parser->bufptr
- PL_parser->linestart
- PL_parser->linestr
- Perl_signbit
- pad_findmy
- sv_utf8_decode
- sv_utf8_downgrade
- bytes_from_utf8
- bytes_to_utf8
- utf8_to_bytes
- DB module
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
See also perldebug, perldebtut
- The pseudo-hash data type
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
- Lvalue subroutines
- Introduced in Perl 5.6.0
See also perlsub
- There is an "installhtml" target in the Makefile.
- Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
- "(?{code})"
- See also perlre
- "(??{ code })"
- See also perlre
- Backtracking control verbs
- "(*ACCEPT)"
Introduced in: Perl 5.10
See also: "Special Backtracking Control Verbs" in perlre
- Code expressions, conditional expressions, and independent expressions in regexes
- The "\N" regex character class
- The "\N" character class, not to be
confused with the named character sequence
"\N{NAME}", denotes any non-newline
character in a regular expression.
Introduced in: Perl 5.12
See also:
- gv_try_downgrade
- See also perlintern
- Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
- See also perllinux
- Pluggable keywords
- See "PL_keyword_plugin" in perlapi for the mechanism.
Introduced in: Perl 5.11.2
Accepted features¶
These features were so wildly successful and played so well with others that we decided to remove their experimental status and admit them as full, stable features in the world of Perl, lavishing all the benefits and luxuries thereof. They are also awarded +5 Stability and +3 Charisma.
- (none yet identified)
Removed features¶
These features are no longer considered experimental and their functionality has disappeared. It's your own fault if you wrote production programs using these features after we explicitly told you not to (see perlpolicy).
- "legacy"
- The experimental "legacy" pragma was
swallowed by the "feature" pragma.
Introduced in: 5.11.2
Removed in: 5.11.3
AUTHORS¶
brian d foy "<brian.d.foy@gmail.com>"
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2010, brian d foy "<brian.d.foy@gmail.com>"
LICENSE¶
You can use and redistribute this document under the same terms as Perl itself.
| 2013-03-04 | perl v5.16.3 |