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Hi all,
thanks for the new releases. One question though:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:32:15 +0100
Steve Hay via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
> How does a cat use its whiskers? The usual answer is that the whiskers
> are feelers that enable a cat to tell whether a gap is wide enough for
> it to squeeze through, but the truth is more complicated and more
> remarkable. In addition to their obvious role as feelers sensitive to
> touch, the whiskers also operate as air-current detectors. As the cat
> moves along in the dark it needs to manoeuvre past solid objects without
> touching them. Each solid object it approaches causes slight eddies in
> the air, minute disturbances in the currents of air movements, and the
> cat's whiskers are so amazingly sensitive that they can read these air
> changes and respond to the presence of solid obstacles even without
> touching them.
>
> -- Desmond Morris, "Catwatching: The Essential Guide to Cat Behaviour"
>
> We are pleased to announce version 26.2, the second maintenance release
> of version 26 of Perl 5.
>
> You will soon be able to download Perl 5.26.2 from your favourite CPAN
> mirror or find it at:
>
> https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.2/
>
> SHA1 digests for this release are:
>
> 5dc74e667250a663d8f3114869e13ba2869bf6a9 perl-5.26.2.tar.gz
> 2057b65e3a6ac71287c973402cd01084a1edc35b perl-5.26.2.tar.bz2
> bfa5c7921ed7bf5e035dbf2f7ff81367b81e372c perl-5.26.2.tar.xz
>
> You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located
> in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web.
>
> Perl 5.26.2 represents approximately 7 months of development since Perl
> 5.26.1 and contains approximately 3,300 lines of changes across 82 files
> from 17 authors.
>
> Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
> were approximately 1,800 lines of changes to 36 .pm, .t, .c and .h
> files.
>
> Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
> community of users and developers. The following people are known to
> have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.26.2:
>
Souldn't it be "its fourth decade", Perl being over 30 years old?
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