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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 9c85450dd0..4c944825bb 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ cannot be built there, for lack of a reasonable command interpreter. Most importantly, many bugs were fixed, including several security problems. See the F<Changes> file in the distribution for details. +=head2 List assignment to %ENV works + +C<%ENV = ()> and C<%ENV = @list> now work as expected (except on VMS +where it generates a fatal error). + +=head2 "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error now lists @INC + =head2 Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003 There is a new Configure question that asks if you want to maintain @@ -84,6 +91,13 @@ non-methods. The simple fix for old code is: In any module that used to depend on inheriting C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods from a base class named C<BaseClass>, execute C<*AUTOLOAD = \&BaseClass::AUTOLOAD> during startup. +=head2 Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable + +Using %OVERLOAD to define overloading was deprecated in 5.003. +Overloading is now defined using the overload pragma. %OVERLOAD is +still used internally but should not be used by Perl scripts. See +L<overload> for more details. + =head2 Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified In Perl 5.004, nonexistent array and hash elements used as subroutine |