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PERLEXPERIMENT(1)                          Perl Programmers Reference Guide                         PERLEXPERIMENT(1)



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


       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

               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)


AUTHORS
       brian d foy "<[email protected]>"

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2010, brian d foy "<[email protected]>"

LICENSE
       You can use and redistribute this document under the same terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.16.3                                          2013-03-04                                    PERLEXPERIMENT(1)