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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2004-03-08 15:35:59 +0000 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2004-03-08 15:35:59 +0000 |
commit | 2cad33ec8e3342a1c189162982e29411665b131e (patch) | |
tree | 817bcad337ce4614989b5b2fcdd051fb9836126b | |
parent | 6e5614bc39d1f530fcd082f3d151c7d766cbb5f5 (diff) | |
download | perl-2cad33ec8e3342a1c189162982e29411665b131e.tar.gz |
perl591delta.pod update.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22468
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diff --git a/pod/perl591delta.pod b/pod/perl591delta.pod index 96fea4cd35..df76f58e00 100644 --- a/pod/perl591delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl591delta.pod @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ A new utility, C<prove>, makes it easy to run an individual regression test at the command line. C<prove> is part of Test::Harness, which users of earlier Perl versions can install from CPAN. +The perl debugger now supports a C<save> command, to save the current +history to a file, and an C<i> command, which prints the inheritance tree +of its argument (if the C<Class::ISA> module is installed.) + =head1 Documentation The documentation has been revised in places to produce more standard manpages. @@ -115,12 +119,11 @@ The documentation has been revised in places to produce more standard manpages. The long-existing feature of C</(?{...})/> regexps setting C<$_> and pos() is now documented. -The perl debugger now supports a C<save> command, to save the current -history to a file, and an C<i> command, which prints the inheritance tree -of its argument (if the C<Class::ISA> module is installed.) - =head1 Performance Enhancements +The operations involving case mapping on UTF-8 strings (uc(), lc(), +C<//i>, etc.) have been greatly speeded up. + =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements =head1 Selected Bug Fixes @@ -160,6 +163,14 @@ C<strict> wasn't in effect in regexp-eval blocks (C</(?{...})/>). =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics +A new deprecation warning, I<Deprecated use of my() in false conditional>, +has been added, to warn against the use of the dubious and deprecated +construct + + my $x if 0; + +See L<perldiag>. + The fatal error "DESTROY created new reference to dead object" is now documented in L<perldiag>. |