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authorDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2016-10-26 09:51:57 +0100
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2016-10-26 09:51:57 +0100
commit2f4cbc090a480b0d02b4e74258b553c7998e45eb (patch)
tree0cbfef81cf3a907393e73019f9db60752ae50cf4 /pod
parent47ff51ce83dcde3c982b2c6c5606b7f839ac210e (diff)
downloadperl-2f4cbc090a480b0d02b4e74258b553c7998e45eb.tar.gz
Add perldelta entries for
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 062c66f17a..9bef25792a 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -89,7 +89,12 @@ There may well be none in a stable release.
=item *
-XXX
+Array and hash assignment are now faster, e.g.
+
+ (..., @a) = (...);
+ (..., %h) = (...);
+
+especially when the RHS is empty.
=back
@@ -338,7 +343,17 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
=item *
-XXX
+List assignment in list context where the LHS contained aggregates and
+where there were not enough RHS elements, used to skip scalar lvalues.
+Previously, C<(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (1))> in list context returned C<($a)>; now
+it returns C<($a,$b,$d)>. C<(($a,$b,$c) = (1))> is unchanged: it still
+returns <($a,$b,$c)>. This can be seen in the following:
+
+ sub inc { $_++ for @_ }
+ inc(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (10))
+
+Formerly, the values of C<($a,$b,$d)> would be left as C<(11,undef,undef)>;
+now they are C<(11,1,1)>.
=back