Question: I didn't realize until recently that Perl 5.10 had significant new features and I was wondering if anyone could give me some good resources for learning about those. I searched for them on Google and all I found was some slides and a quick overview. Some of the features (to me at least) would be nice if they had more explanation.

Any links would be appreciated.

-fREW

Answer: 
*[Learning Perl, Fifth Edition](http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106/)* and later scover 5.10. Other than that, the resources that other people mentioned, including perldelta, are pretty good. I've written a couple of articles about some of the features for [The Effective Perler](http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/category/perl/5-10/).

The best way to get started is to pick an interesting feature and play around with it. That's how the authors of the guides you'll find figured it out. That's how you really should start learning anything is just about any language.
See Ricardo Signes' slides for his excellent "Perl 5.10 For People Who Aren't Totally Insane."

<http://www.slideshare.net/rjbs/perl-510-for-people-who-arent-totally-insane>