v5.12 => {
new => [
- ['<code>package version</code>', '<code>package</code> NAME VERSION shorthand for <code>our $VERSION</code>'],
+ ['<code>package</code> version', '<code>package</code> NAME VERSION shorthand for <code>our $VERSION</code>'],
['<code>...</code>', 'yada-yada operator: code placeholder'],
['<code>use 5.012</code>', 'implicit <code>strict</code> if use VERSION >= v5.12'],
['<code>… when</code>', '<code>when</code> is now allowed to be used as a statement modifier'],
new => [
['<code>${^LAST_FH}</code>', 'last read filehandle (used by <code>$.</code>)'],
['<code>/(?[ a + b ])/</code>', 'regex set operations (character substraction <code>-</code>, unions <code>&</code>)', 'experimental::regex_sets'],
- ['<code>my sub</code>', 'lexical subroutines (also <code>state</code>, <code>our</code>)', 'experimental::lexical_subs'],
+ ['<code>my sub</code>', 'lexical subroutines (also <code>state</code>, <code>our</code>); buggy before v5.22', 'experimental::lexical_subs'],
['<code>next $expression</code>', 'loop controls allow runtime expressions'],
[q"<code>no warnings 'experimental::…'</code>", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for smartmatch'],
],
v5.22 => {
new => [
- ['<code>\$alias =</code>', 'aliasing via reference'],
+ ['<code>\$alias =</code>', 'aliasing via reference (scoped as of v5.25.3)', 'experimental::refaliasing'],
['<code><<>></code>', 'safe <code>readline</code> ignoring open flags in arguments'],
['<code>/()/n</code>', 'flag to disable numbered capturing, turning <code>()</code> into <code>(?:)</code>'],
['<code>/\b{}/</code>', 'boundary types: <em>gcb</em> (grapheme cluster), <em>sb</em> (sentence), <em>wb</em> (word)'],
},
},
- v5.23.8 => {
+ v5.24 => {
new => [
[q"<code>printf '%.*2$x'</code>", 'reordered precision arguments'],
['<code>/\b{lb}/</code>', 'line break boundary type (position suitable for hyphenation)'],
+ ['<code>/faster/</code>', 'various significant speedups, notably matching fixed substrings, <code>/i</code> on caseless languages, 64-bit arithmetic, scope overhead'],
],
unicode => '8.0',
- release => '2016',
- unstable => 1,
+ release => '2016-05-09',
+ },
+
+ v5.25.8 => {
+ new => [
+ ['<code><<~EOT</code>', 'indented here-docs, strips same whitespace before delimiter in each line'],
+ ['<code>@{^CAPTURE}</code>', q"array of last match's captures, so <code>@{^CAPTURE}[0]</code> is <code>$1</code>"],
+ ],
+ unicode => '9.0', # also Script_Extensions/scx in "\p{script}"
+ release => '2016-12-20',
},
}