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author | Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> | 2010-03-17 21:45:36 -0400 |
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committer | Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com> | 2010-03-17 21:45:36 -0400 |
commit | 51e623de6248e035f4d9a015759d34f622d15168 (patch) | |
tree | aaa5b0779134cb71ad47e19371306f211649f04e | |
parent | ff26e4c8efcd1b0f075892dd09118f525b8b8f54 (diff) | |
parent | 8a4f3f1418b323a0223261873d8a0d07fd3098d8 (diff) | |
download | perl-51e623de6248e035f4d9a015759d34f622d15168.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'blead' of ssh://perl5.git.perl.org/gitroot/perl into blead
* 'blead' of ssh://perl5.git.perl.org/gitroot/perl:
A couple of additions to perl5120delta
Add a comma to the number "3000"
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5120delta.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod index 1535f80155..49f8062d72 100644 --- a/pod/perl5120delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5120delta.pod @@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ on how to specify C<configure_requires> when creating a distribution for CPAN. The C<each> function can now operate on arrays. +=head2 C<when> as a statement modifier + +C<when> is now allowed to be used as a statement modifier. + =head2 C<$,> flexibility The variable C<$,> may now be tied. @@ -1511,6 +1515,11 @@ C<if (%foo)> has been optimized to be faster than C<if (keys %foo)>. =item * +The string repetition operator (C<$str x $num>) is now several times faster +when C<$str> has length one or C<$num> is large. + +=item * + Reversing an array to itself (as in C<@a = reverse @a>) in void context now happens in-place and is several orders of magnitude faster than it used to be. It will also preserve non-existent elements whenever @@ -3023,7 +3032,7 @@ in a change of behaviour between 5.8.x and 5.10.0: Perl 5.12.0 represents approximately two years of development since Perl 5.10.0 and contains over 750,000 lines of changes across over -3000 files from over 200 authors and committers. +3,000 files from over 200 authors and committers. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to |