+Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
+between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
+list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information,
+please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
+release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN
+site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
+or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
+releases.)
- s'$lhs'$rhs' now does no interpolation on either side. It used to
- interplolate $lhs but not $rhs.
- The second and third arguments of splice are now evaluated in scalar
- context (like the book says) rather than list context.
+ ---------------
+ CAST AND CREW
+ ---------------
- Saying shift @foo + 20 is now a semantic error.
+To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today,
+here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
+current addresses (as of March 1997):
- The elements of argument lists for formats are now evaluated in list
- context.
+ Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+ Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
+ Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
+ Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl>
+ Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
+ Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
- You can't do a goto into a block that is optimized away.
+And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
- It is no longer syntactically legal to use whitespace as the name
- of a variable.
+ Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+ Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
+ Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
+
+And, of course, the Author of Perl:
+
+ Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
+
+----------------
+Version 5.004_64 Developer release working toward 5.005
+----------------
+
+[Put changes here. Should we go back and put in changes for
+_51 onwards?]
+
+----------------
+Version 5.004_50 First developer release towards 5.005
+----------------
+
+Maintenance of the 5.004 version of perl continues with the 5.004_xx
+series, where 'xx' is <= 49. Development of the next version, 5.005,
+starts with 5.004_50.
- Some error messages will be different.
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