A couple of additions to perl5120delta

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod
index 78c5a44cd7..49f8062d72 100644
--- a/pod/perl5120delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5120delta.pod
@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ on how to specify C<configure_requires> when creating a distribution for CPAN.
 
 The C<each> function can now operate on arrays.
 
+=head2 C<when> as a statement modifier
+
+C<when> is now allowed to be used as a statement modifier.
+
 =head2 C<$,> flexibility
 
 The variable C<$,> may now be tied.
@@ -1511,6 +1515,11 @@ C<if (%foo)> has been optimized to be faster than C<if (keys %foo)>.
 
 =item *
 
+The string repetition operator (C<$str x $num>) is now several times faster
+when C<$str> has length one or C<$num> is large.
+
+=item *
+
 Reversing an array to itself (as in C<@a = reverse @a>) in void context
 now happens in-place and is several orders of magnitude faster than it
 used to be. It will also preserve non-existent elements whenever