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authorFlorian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>2010-08-31 22:16:29 +0200
committerFlorian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>2010-08-31 22:16:29 +0200
commit56e76579f904e4a2139c40d026dd6eac63263b6e (patch)
tree3caeb2cf8adc993b32d27e91e6672f17b99e84c9 /pod/perl5134delta.pod
parent61ea75ac73aaa903f60ec8d026e6d646f18b7451 (diff)
downloadperl-56e76579f904e4a2139c40d026dd6eac63263b6e.tar.gz
Merge the two 5134delta entries for uniary functions
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diff --git a/pod/perl5134delta.pod b/pod/perl5134delta.pod
index 5b22729b10..e90fbffeb9 100644
--- a/pod/perl5134delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5134delta.pod
@@ -25,44 +25,6 @@ each run. It can test a random subset each time, and should there be a failure,
log the seed used for that run so that it can later be used to reproduce the
exact results.
-=head2 Creating unary functions with prototypes
-
-Calls to functions created with the following prototypes are now correctly parsed
-
-Functions declared with the following prototypes now behave correctly as unary functions:
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-C<*>
-
-=item *
-
-C<\sigil>
-
-=item *
-
-C<\[...]>
-
-=item *
-
-C<;$>
-
-=item *
-
-C<;*>
-
-=item *
-
-C<;\sigil>
-
-=item *
-
-C<;\[...]>
-
-=back
-
=head2 C<\N{I<name>}> and C<charnames> enhancements
C<\N{}>, C<charnames::vianame>, C<charnames::viacode> now know about every
@@ -104,9 +66,43 @@ compatible with any previous Perl release.
=head2 Change in the parsing of certain prototypes
-Due to a bug fix, functions using the C<(*)>, C<(;$)> and C<(;*)>
-prototypes are parsed with higher precedence than before. So in the
-following example:
+Functions declared with the following prototypes now behave correctly as unary
+functions:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+C<*>
+
+=item *
+
+C<\sigil>
+
+=item *
+
+C<\[...]>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;$>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;*>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;\sigil>
+
+=item *
+
+C<;\[...]>
+
+=back
+
+Due to this bug fix, functions using the C<(*)>, C<(;$)> and C<(;*)> prototypes
+are parsed with higher precedence than before. So in the following example:
sub foo($);
foo $a < $b;