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@fglock fglock released this 05 Sep 16:28
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v5.42.1: 150k Tests, Extended Operators, and More Perl 5 Features

PerlOnJava continues its march toward full Perl 5 compatibility, now passing over 150,000 tests from the official Perl test suite. This release brings significant language and runtime improvements, adding more built-ins, operators, modules, and compatibility features that make PerlOnJava an even stronger Perl-on-the-JVM solution.

🚀 Highlights

✅ 150k+ Tests Passed

PerlOnJava now successfully runs 150,991 tests from the official Perl test suite, demonstrating major progress in feature coverage and correctness.

🔧 Extended Operators and System Functions

This release adds a wide range of built-ins for user, group, and network information, making PerlOnJava more complete for system-level and network programming:

  • User/Group: getlogin, getpwnam, getpwuid, getgrnam, getgrgid, getpwent, getgrent, setpwent, setgrent, endpwent, endgrent
  • Networking: gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr, getservbyname, getservbyport, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber
  • Utility: reset

➕ Overload Operators

PerlOnJava now supports operator overloading for rich object behavior:
<=>, cmp, <, <=, >, >=, ==, !=, lt, le, gt, ge, eq, ne, qr

📦 More Core Modules

Three key modules are now supported:

  • mro (method resolution order)
  • version (object-oriented version objects)
  • List::Util (common list utilities)

🔡 Language and Syntax Enhancements

  • New keyword: __CLASS__
  • Regex extended character classes: (?[...])
  • More sprintf formatters for formatting flexibility
  • readline now respects the $/ special variable
  • PERL5OPT environment variable supported
  • New command line switches: -s, -f

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed handling of vstrings with codepoints above 65535

PerlOnJava 5.42.1 represents a 50% increase in verified test coverage, with improved syntax, extended modules, and more operators — further narrowing the gap to full Perl 5 compatibility on the JVM.

Explore the project: https://github.com/fglock/PerlOnJava

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