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author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2017-10-20 20:47:46 +0100 |
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committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2017-10-20 20:47:46 +0100 |
commit | 77baf8eb4b5f040221c1def3b5ad1ca27521b030 (patch) | |
tree | 19110cefd5dabb468979078cf1dba5df72a3ab55 | |
parent | 64b9a1390e0b0f693e42ea7d4cc5ffb345afa236 (diff) | |
download | perl-77baf8eb4b5f040221c1def3b5ad1ca27521b030.tar.gz |
perldelta - Update selected bug fixes etc
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 31 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index abd37ee226..8b1609ebcd 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ There may well be none in a stable release. =item * -Calls to C<require> for an already loaded module are now slightly -faster. [perl #132171] +Calls to C<require> for an already loaded module are now slightly faster. +L<[perl #132171]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132171> =back @@ -421,9 +421,9 @@ L</Modules and Pragmata> section. =over 4 -=item XXX-some-platform +=item CentOS -XXX +Compilation on CentOS 5 is now fixed. =back @@ -462,10 +462,25 @@ L<[perl #131730]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131730> =item * -The C<gv_fetchmeth_sv> C function stopped working properly in Perl 5.22 -when fetching a constant with a UTF-8 name if that constant subroutine was -stored in the stash as a simple scalar reference, rather than a full -typeglob. This has been corrected. +The C<gv_fetchmeth_sv> C function stopped working properly in Perl 5.22 when +fetching a constant with a UTF-8 name if that constant subroutine was stored in +the stash as a simple scalar reference, rather than a full typeglob. This has +been corrected. + +=item * + +Single-letter debugger commands followed by an argument which starts with +punctuation (e.g. C<p$^V> and C<x@ARGV>) now work again. They had been +wrongly requiring a space between the command and the argument. +L<[perl #120174]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120174> + +=item * + +L<splice()|perlfunc/splice()> now throws an exception ("Modification of a +read-only value attempted") when modifying a read-only array. Until now it had +been silently modifying the array. The new behaviour is consistent with the +behaviour of L<push()|perlfunc/push()> and L<unshift()|perlfunc/unshift()>. +L<[perl #131000]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131000> =back |