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perldelta for 1913067
authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:34:30 +0000 (14:34 -0700)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:04:06 +0000 (18:04 -0700)
pod/perldelta.pod

index 9dc7642..ed558bb 100644 (file)
@@ -495,6 +495,12 @@ between recursive calls to the same subroutine, causing the inner call to
 modify the value returned by C<ref> in the outer call.  This has been
 fixed.
 
+=item *
+
+C<__PACKAGE__> and constants returning a package name or hash key are now
+consistently read-only.  In various previous Perl releases, they have
+become mutable under certain circumstances.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems