opensuse => '8.1', # 2002-09 eol (SLES8 2002-10 eol 2007-12 ltss 2009-12)
},
distrosum => "RHEL 3, SLES 8, AIX 5/6 until 2017, Solaris 10 until 2021",
- versum => 'stable minimum during 20[01]\d',
+ versum => 'stable minimum upto 2021',
support => '2021-01', # solaris
unicode => '3.2.0',
},
v5.10 => {
new => [
+ ['<code>use v5.10</code>', 'minimal perl version with bundled features (pragma to lexically enable backwards-incompatible syntax)'],
['<code>//</code>', 'defined-or operator'],
['<code>~~</code>', 'smart-match operator to compare different data types <small>(updated in v5.10.1)</small>', {experimental => 'smartmatch'}],
- ['<code>say</code>', 'print with newline, equivalent to <code>print @_, "\n"</code>', {feature => 'say'}],
- ['<code>given</code>', 'switch statement to smart-match with <code>when</code>/<code>default</code>', {name => 'switch', feature => 'switch', experimental => 'smartmatch'}],
+ ['<code>say</code>', 'print with newline, equivalent to <code>print @_, "\n"</code>', {feature => 'say', bundle => 0}],
+ ['<code>given</code>', 'switch statement to smart-match with <code>when</code>/<code>default</code>', {name => 'switch', feature => 'switch', bundle => 0, experimental => 'smartmatch'}],
['<code>/(?<name>)/</code>', 'named capture buffers into <code>%+</code>'],
['<code>/(?1)/</code>', 'recursive regular expression patterns'],
['<code>/(?|)/</code>', 'resets capture numbering for each contained branch'],
['<code>/p</code>', 'optionally preserve <code>${^MATCH}</code> variables (avoiding <code>$&</code> penalty until COW in v5.20)'],
['<code>/\v/, /\h/</code>', 'vertical and horizontal whitespace escapes (<code>\V</code> <code>\H</code> to invert); also <code>/\R/</code> for newlines'],
['<code>my $_</code>', 'lexically scoped version of the default variable', {experimental => 'lexical_topic', dropped => v5.23.4}],
- ['<code>state</code>', 'persistent <code>my</code> variables (scalars only until <a href="#state_ext">5.28</a>)', {feature => 'state'}],
+ ['<code>state</code>', 'persistent <code>my</code> variables (scalars only until <a href="#state_ext">5.28</a>)', {feature => 'state', bundle => 0}],
],
modules => [
[autodie => 'replace builtin functions to throw exceptions instead of returning failure', 'eval {open ...} or $@->matches("open") || die'],
v5.12 => {
new => [
- ['<code>package</code> version', '<code>package</code> NAME VERSION shorthand for <code>our $VERSION</code>'],
+ ['<code>package</code> version', '<code>package</code> <i>NAME</i> <i>VERSION</i> shorthand for <code>our $VERSION</code>'],
['<code>...</code>', 'yada-yada operator: code placeholder'],
['<code>use 5.012</code>', 'implicit <code>strict</code> if use VERSION >= v5.12'],
['<code>… when</code>', '<code>when</code> is now allowed to be used as a statement modifier'],
[q"<code>use re '/flags'</code>", 'customise default modifiers'],
['<code>/(?^)/</code>', 'construct to reset to default modifiers'],
['<code>FH->method</code>', 'filehandle method calls load IO::File on demand (eg. <code>STDOUT->flush</code>)'],
- ['<code>\o{}</code>', 'escape sequence for octal values beyond \777'],
+ ['<code>\o{}</code>', 'escape sequence for octal values beyond 0777'],
+ ['<code>package {}</code>', 'package declaration in scope of code block only'],
+ ['<code>multiple: labels:</code>', 'statement labels allowed in all places, even before other labels'],
],
modules => [
[JSON => 'interface with data in JavaScript Object Notation', 'decode_json <>'],
v5.16 => {
new => [
["<code>no feature ${wbr}'array_base'</code>", 'disables <code>$[</code> to alter the 0 index of the first array element or substring character', {bundle => 0, dropped => v5.30}],
- ['<code>__SUB__</code>', 'current subroutine reference', {feature => 'current_sub'}],
- ['<code>fc, "\F"</code>', 'unicode foldcase to compare case-insensitively', {feature => 'fc'}],
+ ['<code>__SUB__</code>', 'current subroutine reference', {feature => 'current_sub', bundle => 0}],
+ ['<code>fc, "\F"</code>', 'unicode foldcase to compare case-insensitively', {feature => 'fc', bundle => 0}],
['<code>"\N{}"</code>', 'automatic <code>use charnames qw( :full :short )</code>'],
],
release => '2012-05-20',
new => [
['<code>sub ($var)</code>', 'subroutine signatures', {feature => 'signatures', experimental => 'signatures', stable => v5.36, bundle => 0}],
['<code>%hash{…}</code>', 'hash slices return key+value pairs'],
- ['<code>[]->@*</code>', 'postfix dereferencing (also e.g. <code>$scalar->$*</code> for <code>$$scalar</code>)', {feature => 'postderef, postderef_qq', experimental => 'postderef', stable => v5.23.1}],
+ ['<code>[]->@*</code>', 'postfix dereferencing (also e.g. <code>$scalar->$*</code> for <code>$$scalar</code>)', {feature => 'postderef, postderef_qq', experimental => 'postderef', stable => v5.24, bundle => 0}],
[q"<code>use warnings 'once'; $a</code>", 'variables $a and $b are exempt from <em>used once</em> warnings'],
],
unicode => '6.3',
['<code><<…>></code>', 'safe <code>readline</code> ignoring open flags in arguments'],
['<code>/()/n</code>', 'flag to disable numbered capturing, turning <code>()</code> into <code>(?:)</code>'],
['<code>/\b{}/</code>', 'boundary types: <em>gcb</em> (grapheme cluster), <em>sb</em> (sentence), <em>wb</em> (word)'],
- ['<code>&.</code>', '<code>& | ^ ~</code> consistently numeric, dotted operators for strings', {feature => 'bitwise', experimental => 'bitwise', stable => v5.28}],
+ ['<code>&.</code>', '<code>& | ^ ~</code> consistently numeric, dotted operators for strings', {feature => 'bitwise', experimental => 'bitwise', stable => v5.28, bundle => 0}],
[q"<code>use re 'strict'</code>", 'apply stricter syntax rules to regular expression patterns', {experimental => 're_strict'}],
['<code>0x.beep+0</code>', q"hexadecimal floating point notation with binary power; <code>printf '%a'</code> to display"],
['<code><s>??</s></code>', 'single match shorthand (deprecated since v5.14) requires the operator <code><em>m</em>?PATTERN?</code>'],
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