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| author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1997-01-01 08:59:00 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-01-01 08:59:00 +1200 |
| commit | a60067777be62ee91d1318f9ae26d9ed713245de (patch) | |
| tree | 9e312a824c6ef40aa10dd0e60451fd737098a965 /pod/perlref.pod | |
| parent | a034a98d8bfd0fd904012bd5227ce209aaaa0b26 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a60067777be62ee91d1318f9ae26d9ed713245de.tar.gz | |
[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_17 to perl5.003_18]
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Inherited overloading
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t
Chip Salzenberg writes:
>
> Patch now, tarchive later:
Below is the fixed overloading patch.
Note that in between AMG_names got const on it (a good thing!), but as
a corollary I needed to cast away const-ness to actually use it
(since, say, newSVpv does not have const args).
Enjoy,
p5p-msgid: <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Closures at file scope must be anonymous
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c
Subject: Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or <FH>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ..."
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
Msg-ID: <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit c885792efecf3f527b3b5099727cc16b03eee1dc)
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h gv.c op.c
TESTS
Subject: Expanded locale.t and misc.t
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t
Subject: Expanded my.t
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/my.t
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlref.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlref.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod index bbbe57feba..7b522eee4d 100644 --- a/pod/perlref.pod +++ b/pod/perlref.pod @@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ open the filehandle for you, because *HANDLE{IO} will be undef if HANDLE hasn't been used yet. Use \*HANDLE for that sort of thing instead. Using \*HANDLE (or *HANDLE) is another way to use and store non-bareword -filehandles (before 5.002 it was the only way). The two methods are -largely interchangeable, you can do +filehandles (before perl version 5.002 it was the only way). The two +methods are largely interchangeable, you can do splutter(\*STDOUT); $rec = get_rec(\*STDIN); @@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ variables, which are all "global" to the package. =head2 Not-so-symbolic references -A new feature contributing to readability in 5.001 is that the brackets -around a symbolic reference behave more like quotes, just as they +A new feature contributing to readability in perl version 5.001 is that the +brackets around a symbolic reference behave more like quotes, just as they always have within a string. That is, $push = "pop on "; @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ and even print ${ push } . "over"; will have the same effect. (This would have been a syntax error in -5.000, though Perl 4 allowed it in the spaceless form.) Note that this +Perl 5.000, though Perl 4 allowed it in the spaceless form.) Note that this construct is I<not> considered to be a symbolic reference when you're using strict refs: |