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| author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2010-08-31 22:13:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> | 2010-08-31 22:13:06 +0200 |
| commit | 61ea75ac73aaa903f60ec8d026e6d646f18b7451 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e821bc6440fb3ee9d76d6ef8f9486f4cedc54e8 | |
| parent | a8812f5e4144abe77e484a03f0f8f3a838c5f319 (diff) | |
| download | perl-61ea75ac73aaa903f60ec8d026e6d646f18b7451.tar.gz | |
[perl #77234] Change 649d02de (unary prototypes) changes precedence
This patch retroactively adds a description of the breakage to
perl5134delta so it will be copied eventually into perl5140delta.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5134delta.pod | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5134delta.pod b/pod/perl5134delta.pod index 7dbee18be9..5b22729b10 100644 --- a/pod/perl5134delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5134delta.pod @@ -102,6 +102,29 @@ exception if they don't match. Some bit fields have been reordered; therefore, this release will not be binary compatible with any previous Perl release. +=head2 Change in the parsing of certain prototypes + +Due to a bug fix, functions using the C<(*)>, C<(;$)> and C<(;*)> +prototypes are parsed with higher precedence than before. So in the +following example: + + sub foo($); + foo $a < $b; + +the second line is now parsed correctly as C<< foo($a) < $b >>, rather than +C<< foo($a < $b) >>. This happens when one of these operators is used in +an unparenthesised argument: + + < > <= >= lt gt le ge + == != <=> eq ne cmp ~~ + & + | ^ + && + || // + .. ... + ?: + = += -= *= etc. + =head1 Deprecations =head2 List assignment to C<$[> |