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perldelta for 14d9114
authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:56:22 +0000 (17:56 -0700)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:26:15 +0000 (23:26 -0700)
pod/perldelta.pod

index eeecafd..a40cf59 100644 (file)
@@ -441,6 +441,12 @@ The internal C<looks_like_number> function (which L<Scalar::Util> provides
 access to) began erroneously to return true for "-e1" in 5.21.4, affecting
 also C<-'-e1'>.  This has been fixed.
 
+=item *
+
+The flip-flop operator (C<..> in scalar context) would return the same
+scalar each time, unles the containing subroutine was called recursively.
+Now it always returns a new scalar.  [perl #122829]
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems