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| author | Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> | 2017-11-22 17:16:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> | 2017-11-22 17:16:36 +0000 |
| commit | 5e1cca32ac612f0b59508a99fbff671a693f39b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1510f8c9339c502bc9f08260ba4540fce37818bd | |
| parent | 98729e54e4bb1f6f9e5e0a21c6e56461abe54dbf (diff) | |
| download | perl-5e1cca32ac612f0b59508a99fbff671a693f39b9.tar.gz | |
update perlexperiment.pod re smartmatch
Mention the big changes in 5.28, and explicate that the experiment covers
switch as well as smartmatch.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlexperiment.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlexperiment.pod b/pod/perlexperiment.pod index cf0bab3b99..566a3e0e97 100644 --- a/pod/perlexperiment.pod +++ b/pod/perlexperiment.pod @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ their inception, versions, etc. There's a lot of speculation here. =over 8 -=item Smart match (C<~~>) +=item Smart match (C<~~>) and switch (given/when) Introduced in Perl 5.10.0 -Modified in Perl 5.10.1, 5.12.0 +Modified in Perl 5.10.1, 5.12.0, 5.28.0 Using this feature triggers warnings in the category C<experimental::smartmatch>. @@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ C<experimental::smartmatch>. The ticket for this feature is L<[perl #119317]|https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119317>. +For historical reasons, the single experiment covers both the smart +match operator (C<~~>) and the switch-related compound statements +(given/when), which apart from the shared warning category are now +unrelated in behaviour. + =item Pluggable keywords The ticket for this feature is |