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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 7c05104f42..53d839ae6d 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ XXX =back +=head2 C<scalar(%hash)> return signature changed + +The value returned for C<scalar(%hash)> will no longer show information +about the buckets allocated in the hash. It will simply return the count +of used keys. It is thus equivalent to C<0+keys(%hash)>. + +A form of backwards compatibility is provided via C<Hash::Util::bucket_ratio()> +which provides the same behavior as scalar(%hash) provided prior to +Perl 5.25. + =head1 Modules and Pragmata XXX All changes to installed files in F<cpan/>, F<dist/>, F<ext/> and F<lib/> |