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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2006-01-24 18:50:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2006-01-24 18:50:52 +0000 |
| commit | fa505e3759a133af6cc1dc5a971db61028916cd1 (patch) | |
| tree | f2bb2f44d73dae94ea3dffef715afbeaa0af8dd0 | |
| parent | e5daf33b8a0be827b71b6d82aa5a04ba09cfa1e6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-fa505e3759a133af6cc1dc5a971db61028916cd1.tar.gz | |
Document the fix to no warnings '...' as it will cause fun and games.
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@26942
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diff --git a/pod/perl588delta.pod b/pod/perl588delta.pod index 82eb3618ff..ec693da746 100644 --- a/pod/perl588delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl588delta.pod @@ -1481,6 +1481,15 @@ but was accidentally omitted from L<perl587delta>). =head1 Selected Bug Fixes +=head2 no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w + +Previously when running with warnings enabled globally via C<-w>, selective +disabling of specific warning categories would actually turn off all warnings. +This is now fixed; now C<no warnings 'io';> will only turn off warnings in the +C<io> class. Previously it would erroneously turn off all warnings. + +This bug fix may cause some programs to start correctly issuing warnings. + =head2 Remove over-optimisation Perl 5.8.4 introduced a change so that assignments of C<undef> to a |