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authorJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-03-17 21:45:36 -0400
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-03-17 21:45:36 -0400
commit51e623de6248e035f4d9a015759d34f622d15168 (patch)
treeaaa5b0779134cb71ad47e19371306f211649f04e
parentff26e4c8efcd1b0f075892dd09118f525b8b8f54 (diff)
parent8a4f3f1418b323a0223261873d8a0d07fd3098d8 (diff)
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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"
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diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod
index 1535f80155..49f8062d72 100644
--- a/pod/perl5120delta.pod
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@@ -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