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| author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2016-08-19 22:08:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2016-08-19 22:08:16 -0700 |
| commit | 24c3455551f279028661b19077eb6c0e12df2fbe (patch) | |
| tree | 44400dbf239a4053651fea2fc80740f85c529cfd | |
| parent | b6e9e118a4133eb96eb5e5de209ea6a37fd15bfe (diff) | |
| download | perl-24c3455551f279028661b19077eb6c0e12df2fbe.tar.gz | |
Correct a perldelta entry
The termcode variable in scan_const, which was an I32 and susceptible
to truncation, is not used to find the closing delimiter, but only to
check for special uses of delimiters such as in qr'...' and m?...? and
‘<’ which is used internally as the ‘closing delimiter’ for here-docs,
it being one that can never occur for other pyoq operators.
Hence, such strings already worked before, but now they work consis-
tently; \x{100000027} no longer suppresses regexep interpolation,
for instance.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index c182040945..22b066fc32 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -424,8 +424,11 @@ fixed. [perl #128686]. =item * -Use of a string delimiter whose code point is above 2**32 is now -supported on platforms that allow this. Note that this is non-portable, +Use of a string delimiter whose code point is above 2**31 now works +correctly on platforms that allow this. Previously, certain characters, +due to truncation, would be confused with other delimiter characters +with special meaning (such as C<?> in C<m?...?>), resulting +in inconsistent behaviour. Note that this is non-portable, and is based on Perl's extension to UTF-8, and is probably not displayable nor enterable by any editor. [perl #128738] |