Jacinta Richardson did a Perl best practices talk at Linux Conf Au in Brisbane Australia recently.

It was a pretty good talk and overview of some of the more recent Perl functionality. The emphasis is on writing decent and maintainable code. There has been a lot of work done on pushing a Modern Perl in the last couple of years and I'd like to come back to this and discuss further. For now, Jacinta's talk advertised some modern Perl I was unfamiliar with (as well as some I am).

This is a rough list of particular interest - those in bold I know or use. The rest is new :

state declaration (static var)
given
~~ smart match
Smart::Comments
perlbrew
local::lib
cpanm
module-starter
test::most
use 5.10.1
perltidy
perlcritic --harsh code.pl
Scalar::Util, List::Util etc. - built in
ORM not SQL
use Method::Signatures
Path::Class
\A - match abs. start of string e.g. /\Amatch/
\Z - match abs. end .. /match\Z/
Change delim i.e. m{//}
use qr{} e.g. $lhs = qr{(\w+);(\w+)} --> ? - where we might then use $1
Regex::Common