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- From: Eric.Arnold@Sun.COM (Eric arnold)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: ? Perl5 ?
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 23:33:47 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Is there a general list of what will be in Perl 5, and when? I'm
- considering Perl for wider use, and more intense applications, but I
- crave REAL structures/nested data types. (It would also be neat to
- have more object-oriented support.) Every time I've tried to do
- any in-depth programming with emulated struct.s, I've always gotten
- into a big mess.
-
- Another thing that would be wonderful (though not as critical) would
- be a better interface for linking in your own C routines. I've added a
- NetISAM+DBM-layer set of calls via "usersub", but I found that the
- documentation/interface was such that I had to guess at the appropriate
- calls for the more complex interactions with "perl" internal objects.
-
- I'd also put my vote in for a "case" statement like "sh" has. It's
- very useful/expressive/concise. In fact, it's one of my favorite things about
- the Bourne shell language.
-
- -Eric
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