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| author | Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com> | 2010-03-17 22:28:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com> | 2010-03-17 22:28:53 +0100 |
| commit | 8a4f3f1418b323a0223261873d8a0d07fd3098d8 (patch) | |
| tree | b7433ee5465f35c0a59107051a8a0c5fedc49360 | |
| parent | ee75e258eab0b48cae941e488b64eed08f57fe22 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8a4f3f1418b323a0223261873d8a0d07fd3098d8.tar.gz | |
A couple of additions to perl5120delta
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diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod index 78c5a44cd7..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 |