From: Jesse Vincent Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:54 +0000 (-0400) Subject: perl5111delta now includes all changes between 5.11.0 and 5.11.1 and has been lightly... X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32619a1dcb5d3caacc6c7637f7e699486a5a588f;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git perl5111delta now includes all changes between 5.11.0 and 5.11.1 and has been lightly copyedited --- diff --git a/pod/perl5111delta.pod b/pod/perl5111delta.pod index d6f2f90..37f3523 100644 --- a/pod/perl5111delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5111delta.pod @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ for C and similar constructs. E.g. There are several advantages to this: +=over + =item * C<$VERSION> is parsed in I the same way as C @@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ Eliminates C<$VERSION = ...> and C clutter As it requires VERSION to be a numeric literal or v-string literal, it can be statically parsed by toolchain modules -without 'eval' the way MM->parse_version does for '$VERSION = ...' +without C the way MM-Eparse_version does for C<$VERSION = ...> =item * @@ -62,6 +64,8 @@ Users requiring the latest Perl will benefit, and perhaps N years from now it will become standard practice when Perl 5.12 is targeted the way that 5.6 is today. +=back + =head1 Modules and Pragmata =head2 Updated Modules @@ -150,6 +154,8 @@ on Darwin 8 and 9 (Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, respectively). =item Initial support for mingw64 is now available +=item Various bits of Perl's build infrastructure are no longer converted to win32 line endings at release time. If this hurts you, please speak up. + =back @@ -204,6 +210,8 @@ see L =item Significant cleanups to core tests to ensure that language and interpreter features are not used before they're tested. +=item C now runs a number of important pre-commit checks which might be of use to anyone working on the Perl core. + =item F automatically checks the well-formedness of POD found in all .pl, .pm and .pod files in the F, other than in dual-lifed modules which are primarily maintained outside the Perl core. @@ -275,8 +283,3 @@ The F file for general stuff. The F and F files for copyright information. =cut - -This is all changes through 6609e0408cfa30e0d5c739e4c818f8591c88c0bc - - -