The new format type modifier '!' is useful for packing and unpacking native shorts, ints, and longs. See "pack" in perlfunc. pack() and unpack() support counted strings The template character '/' can be used to specify a counted string type to be packed or unpacked. See "pack" in...
Use of "/g" with "split" elicits "Use of /g modifier is meaningless in split". Support for the "CLONE" special subroutine had been added. With ithreads, when a new thread is created, all Perl data is cloned, however non-Perl data cannot be cloned automatically. In "CLONE" you can...