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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2011-12-06 16:54:18 -0800
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2011-12-07 06:15:33 -0800
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Document :default feature bundle
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@@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ This feature is available starting with Perl 5.16.
It's possible to load a whole slew of features in one go, using
a I<feature bundle>. The name of a feature bundle is prefixed with
-a colon, to distinguish it from an actual feature. At present, the
-only feature bundles correspond to Perl releases, e.g. C<use feature
-":5.10"> which is equivalent to C<use feature qw(switch say state)>.
+a colon, to distinguish it from an actual feature. At present, most
+feature bundles correspond to Perl releases, e.g. C<use feature
+":5.10"> which is equivalent to C<use feature qw(switch say state)>. The
+only bundle that does not follow this convention is ":default", which is
+currently empty.
By convention, the feature bundle for any given Perl release includes
the features of previous releases, down to and including 5.10, the