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| author | Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk> | 2004-11-17 18:10:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2004-11-18 21:15:15 +0000 |
| commit | 3047bc43d99dde0ccea18f49c67aad54161cfe77 (patch) | |
| tree | 684c75ab58d3054aeff9597d588cbde80c39c037 | |
| parent | 26fc481e566461861f7455a9d0bdddb267bd2571 (diff) | |
| download | perl-3047bc43d99dde0ccea18f49c67aad54161cfe77.tar.gz | |
Re: Proposed patch for perldelta.pod for 5.8.6-RC1
Message-Id: <E1CUUFq-00006L-H7@virgo.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:10:06 +0000
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@23515
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl586delta.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl586delta.pod b/pod/perl586delta.pod index 16182885f7..358e7029b6 100644 --- a/pod/perl586delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl586delta.pod @@ -116,11 +116,9 @@ than using the overloaded values. This has been fixed. C<read> into a UTF8-encoded buffer with an offset off the end of the buffer no longer mis-calculates buffer lengths. -There was a long-standing optimization for C<sort {$b cmp $a}> that assumed -that Perl's C<sort> was not stable. In perl 5.6.x and earlier no guarantee was -made, so this optimization was valid. 5.8.0 introduced a guarantee of -stability in the default C<sort> implementation, rendering this optimization -invalid in specific cases. This has been fixed. +Although Perl has promised since version 5.8 that C<sort()> would be +stable, the two cases C<sort {$b cmp $a}> and C<<sort {$b <=> $a}>> could +produce non-stable sorts. This is corrected in perl5.8.6. Localising C<$^D> no longer generates a diagnostic message about valid -D flags. |