From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:12:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Elaborate a bit on Storable. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e27159c9da66a0f663e2305724051d49b0dc0e94;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Elaborate a bit on Storable. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16153 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 02ddf88..3b5fc1c 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -879,7 +879,12 @@ C is a new pragma for controlling the behaviour of sort(). C gives persistence to Perl data structures by allowing the storage and retrieval of Perl data to and from files in a fast and -compact binary format, from Raphael Manfredi. See L. +compact binary format. Because in effect Storable does serialisation +of Perl data structues, with it you can also clone deep, hierarchical +datastructures. Storable was created by Raphael Manfredi but it is +now maintained by the Perl development team. Storable has been +enhanced to understand the two new hash features, Unicode keys and +restricted hashes. See L. =item *