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perldelta for 7950e9cf39
authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Sun, 7 Sep 2014 19:35:40 +0000 (12:35 -0700)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:25:36 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
pod/perldelta.pod

index 1cbcc41..940a9d6 100644 (file)
@@ -275,6 +275,12 @@ The warning "Ambiguous use of -foo resolved as -&foo()" has been removed.
 There is actually no ambiguity here, and this impedes the use of negated
 constants; e.g., C<-Inf>.
 
+=item *
+
+The little-known C<my Class $var> syntax (see L<fields> and L<attributes>)
+could get confused in the scope of C<use utf8> if C<Class> were a constant
+whose value contained Latin-1 characters.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Utility Changes