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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org> | 2010-07-19 14:23:42 +0000 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-07-19 08:27:46 -0700 |
| commit | 2b32d74cef00e0bba7871a1c7dc3f66b07049e2c (patch) | |
| tree | 043836a9be14b1f3c27037bd149748773487e963 /pod/perl5133delta.pod | |
| parent | 15d6324c2f3654e2d5818d7d451b90a689d37353 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2b32d74cef00e0bba7871a1c7dc3f66b07049e2c.tar.gz | |
perl5133delta: Expand on "Uppercase X/B allowed.."
Mention that C<eval sprintf "%#X", 0x10> now works, and that upper
case hex/binary literals are supported in C and friends.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perl5133delta.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5133delta.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5133delta.pod b/pod/perl5133delta.pod index 2f571c69b5..58ff417344 100644 --- a/pod/perl5133delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5133delta.pod @@ -51,8 +51,14 @@ See L<charnames> for details on all these changes. =head2 Uppercase X/B allowed in hexadecimal/binary literals -Literals may now use either C<0X...> or C<0B...> in addition to C<0x...> -and C<0b...> prefixes. (RT#76296) (a674e8d) +Literals may now use either upper case C<0X...> or C<0B...> prefixes, +in addition to the already supported C<0x...> and C<0b...> +syntax. (RT#76296) (a674e8d) + +C, Ruby, Python and PHP already supported this syntax, and it makes +Perl more internally consistent. A round-trip with C<eval sprintf +"%#X", 0x10> now returns C<16> in addition to C<eval sprintf "%#x", +0x10>, which worked before. =head1 Incompatible Changes |