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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org> | 2017-12-06 13:21:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org> | 2017-12-06 14:01:48 +0000 |
| commit | 7b0ac4577d4cc7902dfa379f3318a8af1b736a3d (patch) | |
| tree | 3a6a7293affb349e82b588cd99f4e70fff924b1a /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | b8efdcb1dd71d6d41ff075361a43cfa4348b4c17 (diff) | |
| download | perl-7b0ac4577d4cc7902dfa379f3318a8af1b736a3d.tar.gz | |
pod: start referring to 5.6 and pre-5.6 as "ancient" instead of just "old"
5.10 and 5.8 are old, 5.6 is ancient archaeology you're very unlikely
to run into, but the casual reader may not know that, add the extra
emphasis in case someone's mistaken about needing to worry about this
for anything more than historical trivia.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 74a6a782e0..188699cea2 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -2025,8 +2025,8 @@ The last example should print: Notice that the final match matched C<q> instead of C<p>, which a match without the C<\G> anchor would have done. Also note that the final match did not update C<pos>. C<pos> is only updated on a C</g> match. If the -final match did indeed match C<p>, it's a good bet that you're running a -very old (pre-5.6.0) version of Perl. +final match did indeed match C<p>, it's a good bet that you're running an +ancient (pre-5.6.0) version of Perl. A useful idiom for C<lex>-like scanners is C</\G.../gc>. You can combine several regexps like this to process a string part-by-part, |