Perl 5.22 Support

[hurricup]

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Reference: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5220delta.html

Features:

• New operators &. |. ^. ~. with their assignment counterparts &.= |.= ^.= ~.= , experimental (bitwise) #2210
• Double diamond operator << >> - #2212
• [x] Non-capturing regex flag n
• [ ] Aliasing via deref. Generally works, but foreach \%hash (@array_of_hash_refs) { ... } doesn't, experimental (refaliasing)
• [ ] hexadecimal floating point literals 0x1.23p-4, see here
• [ ] In double-quotish \cX, X must now be a printable ASCII character. This is not yet implemented
• [ ] Omiting % or @ is no longer permitted
• [ ] defined(@array) and defined(%hash) are now fatal errors
• [ ] Using a hash or an array as a reference are now fatal errors %foo->{"bar"}
• [ ] deprecated Inlining of sub () { $var } with observable side-effects
• [ ] deprecated Use of multiple /x regexp modifiers
• [ ] A literal "{" should now be escaped in a pattern. escape, brakets or \Q

[elcamlost]

+1 for string bitwise operators.