From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:07:17 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldelta for 9a0c99494c and 06b58b76f31
X-Git-Tag: v5.17.3~293
X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/3e81bef20efc82dfe52a462a69492310d7ea3459?hp=77f5d5391b62a789859420c91301d6d3d27a122f

perldelta for 9a0c99494c and 06b58b76f31
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 9fecc46..6f545d5 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -352,6 +352,13 @@ is because Unicode corrected their definition of what C<\w> should match.
 
 C<dump LABEL> no longer leaks its label.
 
+=item *
+
+Constant folding no longer changes the behaviour of functions like C<stat>
+and C<truncate> that can take either filenames or handles.
+C<stat 1 ? foo : bar> nows treats its argument as a file name (since it is
+an arbitrary expression), rather than the handle "foo".
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems