=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.13.4
+perl5134delta - what is new for perl v5.13.4
=head1 DESCRIPTION
log the seed used for that run so that it can later be used to reproduce the
exact results.
-=head2 Creating unary functions with prototypes
-
-Calls to functions created with the following prototypes are now correctly parsed
-
-Functions declared with the following prototypes now behave correctly as unary functions:
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-*
-
-=item *
-
-\sigil
-
-=item *
-
-\[...]
-
-=item *
-
-;$
-
-=item *
-
-;*
-
-=item *
-
-;\sigil
-
-=item *
-
-;\[...]
-
-=back
-
=head2 C<\N{I<name>}> and C<charnames> enhancements
C<\N{}>, C<charnames::vianame>, C<charnames::viacode> now know about every
Some bit fields have been reordered; therefore, this release will not be binary
compatible with any previous Perl release.
+=head2 Change in the parsing of certain prototypes
+
+Functions declared with the following prototypes now behave correctly as unary
+functions:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<*>
+
+=item *
+
+C<\sigil>
+
+=item *
+
+C<\[...]>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;$>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;*>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;\sigil>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;\[...]>
+
+=back
+
+Due to this bug fix, functions using the C<(*)>, C<(;$)> and C<(;*)> prototypes
+are parsed with higher precedence than before. So in the following example:
+
+ sub foo($);
+ foo $a < $b;
+
+the second line is now parsed correctly as C<< foo($a) < $b >>, rather than
+C<< foo($a < $b) >>. This happens when one of these operators is used in
+an unparenthesised argument:
+
+ < > <= >= lt gt le ge
+ == != <=> eq ne cmp ~~
+ &
+ | ^
+ &&
+ || //
+ .. ...
+ ?:
+ = += -= *= etc.
+
=head1 Deprecations
=head2 List assignment to C<$[>
=item *
The changes in L<substr()|perlfunc/"substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT">
-break L<HTML::Parser>. A patch has already been applied to its git repository
-and will hopefully be released shortly.
+broke C<HTML::Parser> <= 3.66. A fixed C<HTML::Parser> is available as version
+3.67 on CPAN.
+
+=item *
+
+The changes in prototype handling break C<Switch>. A patch has been sent
+upstream and will hopefully appear on CPAN soon.
=back
=head1 Acknowledgements
Perl 5.13.4 represents approximately one month of development since Perl 5.13.3,
-and contains XXX lines of changes across XXX files from XXX authors and
+and contains 91,200 lines of changes across 436 files from 34 authors and
committers.
Thank you to the following for contributing to this release:
-XXX The list of people to thank goes here.
+Abigail, Andy Armstrong, Andy Dougherty, Chas. Owens, Chip Salzenberg, Chris
+'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, David Cantrell, David Golden, David Mitchell,
+Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, George Greer, Gerard Goossen,
+H.Merijn Brand, James Mastros, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden, Joshua ben Jore,
+Karl Williamson, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯, Leon Brocard, Lubomir Rintel, Nicholas
+Clark, Paul Marquess, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Robin Barker, Slaven
+Rezic, Steve Peters, Tony Cook, Wolfram Humann, Zefram
=head1 Reporting Bugs