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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-03-09 03:16:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-03-09 03:16:07 +0000 |
| commit | 0244c3a403af2426ac6678d042024bb183ebbfa9 (patch) | |
| tree | 40a351e091ccd9a2bb3b3161bc86da1768784ce2 /pod | |
| parent | dce40276d967c484e2b36928ff656a2f5ac3647a (diff) | |
| download | perl-0244c3a403af2426ac6678d042024bb183ebbfa9.tar.gz | |
fix parsing of here documents in C<eval 's/.../<<FOO/e'>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3098
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 022fe924ab..49ffc263d4 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -202,6 +202,21 @@ Note that the behavior of: is unchanged (it continues to leave the file empty). +=head2 C<eval '...'> improvements + +Line numbers (as reflected by caller() and most diagnostics) within +C<eval '...'> were often incorrect when here documents were involved. +This has been corrected. + +Lexical lookups for variables appearing in C<eval '...'> within +functions that were themselves called within an C<eval '...'> were +searching the wrong place for lexicals. They now correctly terminate +the lexical search at the subroutine call boundary. + +Parsing of here documents used to be flawed when they appeared as +the replacement expression in C<eval 's/.../.../e'>. This has +been fixed. + =head1 Supported Platforms =over 4 |