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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-03-08 15:35:59 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-03-08 15:35:59 +0000
commit2cad33ec8e3342a1c189162982e29411665b131e (patch)
tree817bcad337ce4614989b5b2fcdd051fb9836126b
parent6e5614bc39d1f530fcd082f3d151c7d766cbb5f5 (diff)
downloadperl-2cad33ec8e3342a1c189162982e29411665b131e.tar.gz
perl591delta.pod update.
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@@ -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>.