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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2014-08-20 09:45:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Peter Martini <PeterCMartini@GMail.com> | 2014-08-20 16:13:58 -0400 |
| commit | 21f3b41e42dce4ee2da8739ba42887336609168a (patch) | |
| tree | 7de970fe10b6333c45018e16ecce2cdd59e14a46 | |
| parent | f88f10f50706154dd7828ac8abe4a02f99a5e280 (diff) | |
| download | perl-21f3b41e42dce4ee2da8739ba42887336609168a.tar.gz | |
perldelta for hexadecimal floats.
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 58a21ae1c7..9467081e62 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -21,8 +21,12 @@ to not die if the argument is assigning to an array. =head2 Floating point handling and parsing has been improved -A number of area in the core that handle the parsing and printing -of floating point values have been improved. +Parsing and printing of floating point values has been improved. +XXX what in addition to hexadecimal floats? if nothing, change the head2. + +As a completely new feature, hexadecimal floating point literals +(like 0x1.23p-4) are now supported, and they can be output with +C<printf %a>. =head1 Security |