[ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as
XXX needs to be processed before release. ]
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.13.7
+perldelta - what is new for perl v5.13.8
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This document describes differences between the 5.13.6 release and
+This document describes differences between the 5.13.8 release and
the 5.13.7 release.
-If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.5, first read
-L<perl5136delta>, which describes differences between 5.13.5 and
-5.13.6.
+If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.6, first read
+L<perl5137delta>, which describes differences between 5.13.6 and
+5.13.7.
=head1 Notice
[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
-=head2 Single term prototype
-
-The C<+> prototype is a special alternative to C<$> that will act like
-C<\[@%]> when given a literal array or hash variable, but will otherwise
-force scalar context on the argument. This is useful for functions which
-should accept either a literal array or an array reference as the argument:
-
- sub smartpush (+@) {
- my $aref = shift;
- die "Not an array or arrayref" unless ref $aref eq 'ARRAY';
- push @$aref, @_;
- }
-
-When using the C<+> prototype, your function must check that the argument
-is of an acceptable type.
-
-=head2 C<use re '/flags';>
-
-The C<re> pragma now has the ability to turn on regular expression flags
-till the end of the lexical scope:
-
- use re '/x';
- "foo" =~ / (.+) /; # /x implied
-
-See L<re/'/flags' mode> for details.
-
=head1 Security
XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security
=item *
-XXX What should the version be?
-
-C<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from 0.99 to ???.
-
-It fixes deparsing of C<our> followed by a variable with funny characters
-(as permitted under the C<utf8> pragma)
-L<[perl #33752]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33752>.
-
-=item *
-
-C<charnames> has been upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17.
-
-The algorithm used by C<charnames::viacode> to look up names has been
-rewritten to run faster
-L<[perl #75448]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75448>.
-
-=item *
-
-C<Locale::Maketext> has been upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17
-
-=item *
-
-C<re> has been upgraded from 0.13 to 0.14, for the sake of the new
-C<use re "/flags"> pragma.
+XXX
=back
=item *
-C<lex_start> has been added to the API, but is considered experimental.
-
-=item *
-
-A new C<parse_block> function has been added to the API
-L<[perl #78222]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78222>.
-
-=item *
-
-A new, experimental API has been added for accessing the internal
-structure that Perl uses for C<%^H>. See the functions beginning with
-C<cophh_> in L<perlapi>.
+XXX
=back
=item *
-The C<parse_stmt> C function added in earlier in the 5.13.x series has been
-fixed to work with statements ending with C<}>
-L<[perl #78222]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78222>.
-
-=item *
-
-The C<parse_fullstmt> C function added in 5.13.5 has been fixed to work
-when called while an expression is being parsed.
-
-=item *
-
-Characters in the Latin-1 non-ASCII range (0x80 to 0xFF) used not to match
-themselves if the string happened to be UTF8-encoded internally, the
-regular expression was not, and the character in the regular expression was
-inside a repeated group (e.g.,
-C<Encode::decode_utf8("\303\200") =~ /(\xc0)+/>)
-L<[perl #78464]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78464>.
-
-=item *
-
-The C<(?d)> regular expression construct now overrides a previous C<(?u)>
-or C<use feature "unicode_string">
-L<[perl #78508]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78508>.
-
-=item *
-
-A memory leak in C<do "file">, introduced in perl 5.13.6, has been fixed
-L<[perl #78488]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78488>.
+XXX
=back
bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be
information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
-If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the
B<perlbug>
+If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the
L<perlbug>
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff