package English;
-our $VERSION = '1.06';
+our $VERSION = '1.08';
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use English;
- use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ; # Avoids regex performance penalty
- # in perl 5.16 and earlier
+ use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ; # Avoids regex performance
+ # penalty in perl 5.16 and
+ # earlier
...
if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
=head1 PERFORMANCE
-NOTE: This was fixed in perl 5.18. Mentioning these three variables no
+NOTE: This was fixed in perl 5.20. Mentioning these three variables no
longer makes a speed difference. This section still applies if your code
-is to run on perl 5.16 or earlier.
+is to run on perl 5.18 or earlier.
This module can provoke sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions,
due to unfortunate implementation details. If performance matters in