Fix deparsing of ‘my sub x; sub { sub x {...} }’

[perl5.git] / lib / feature.pm

diff --git a/lib/feature.pm b/lib/feature.pm
index b902d51..de237b7 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/feature.pm
+++ b/lib/feature.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 package feature;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.38';
+our $VERSION = '1.39';
 
 our %feature = (
     fc              => 'feature_fc',
@@ -255,6 +255,27 @@ and C<our sub foo> syntax.  See L<perlsub/Lexical Subroutines> for details.
 
 This feature is available from Perl 5.18 onwards.
 
+=head2 The 'postderef' and 'postderef_qq' features
+
+B<WARNING>: This feature is still experimental and the implementation may
+change in future versions of Perl.  For this reason, Perl will
+warn when you use the feature, unless you have explicitly disabled the
+warning:
+
+  no warnings "experimental::postderef";
+
+The 'postderef' feature allows the use of L<postfix dereference
+syntax|perlref/Postfix Dereference Syntax>.  For example, it will make the
+following two statements equivalent:
+
+  my @x = @{ $h->{a} };
+  my @x = $h->{a}->@*;
+
+The 'postderef_qq' feature extends this, for array and scalar dereference, to
+working inside of double-quotish interpolations.
+
+This feature is available from Perl 5.20 onwards.
+
 =head2 The 'signatures' feature
 
 B<WARNING>: This feature is still experimental and the implementation may