Avoid worry and distractions of any kind when you are practicing. Your mind must be every minute on what you are doing, or the value of your practice is lessened enormously. By intense concentration, love of your work and the spirit in which you approach it, you can do more in a half hour than in an hour spent purposelessly. Do not think you have been practicing, if you have played a single note with your mind on anything else. -- Josef Lhevinne, "Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing" We are gladdened to announce the first release candidate of version 36.1, the first maintenance release of version 36 of Perl 5. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.36.1-RC1 from your favourite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.36.1-RC1/ SHA256 digests for this release are: *perl-5.36.1-RC1.tar.gz: 2c1c1e012b465f2e8c343c0a2298b6737678f7a9abf7a43b31307193b762f3da *perl-5.36.1-RC1.tar.xz: 2594ec8e7e968f6a4a9773d95bf01c7d18740c26b199cd0bc2e4f084fc1cfe1f 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. ***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.36.1-RC1. This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before v5.36.1 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.36.1 than for v5.36.2! The final v5.36.1 is expected to ship on 23rd April. Steve HayThread Next