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diff --git a/perl.inc.pl b/perl.inc.pl
index ba330ba..0b6ab2c 100644
--- a/perl.inc.pl
+++ b/perl.inc.pl
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use utf8;
v5.005 => {
new => [
- ['threads' => '', {experimental => 0, stable => 0}],
+ ['lock
', 'obsolete Thread
implementation, including a keyword to place advisory locks on shared variables', {experimental => 0, stable => 0, removed => v5.10}],
['B::â¦
', 'backend hooks'],
['qr//
' => 'overhauled regular expression engine: precompile operator, lookahead/behind, code, conditions, localised flags'],
['⦠foreach
' => 'for(each)
as statement modifier, with large ranges optimised as counting loops'],
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ use utf8;
['splice â¦,â¦,-$length
', 'negative length indicates elements to keep at the end of an array'],
['$/
', 'integer or scalar separator makes <>
read records instead of lines'],
],
+ modules => [
+ ['Data::Dumper' => 'stringify data structures'],
+ ['Errno' => 'system errno.h
constants'],
+ ['File::Spec'],
+ ['Fatal'],
+ ['Test'],
+ ],
release => '1998-07-22',
unstable => 0,
},
@@ -64,15 +71,18 @@ use utf8;
[q"open $fh, '>', \$var
", 'perl scalars as virtual files'],
[q"printf '%1$s', @args
", 'syntax to use parameters out of order'],
[q"1_2_3 == 123
", 'underscores between digits allowed in numeric constants'],
-# [q"use if
", 'conditional module inclusion'], # also installable in earlier versions
],
modules => [
+ [bignum => 'transparent big number support', 'length 1e100 == 101'],
+ [if => 'conditional module inclusion', 'no if $] >= 5.022, "warnings", "redundant"'],
+ [sort => 'override sort() algorithm', {dropped => v5.28, eg => 'sort::current eq "stable"'}],
[Digest => 'calculate various message digests (data hashes)', '$hash = sha256_hex($data)'],
[Encode => 'character set conversion', 'encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $octets))'],
- #[sort => 'control sort() behaviour'],
+ ['File::Temp' => 'create a temporary file or directory safely', '$fh = tempfile();'],
['List::Util' => 'general-utility list subroutines', '@cards = shuffle 0..51'],
+ ['Locale::Maketext' => 'various localization and internationalization in Locale::*
and L18N::*
'],
+ ['Memoize' => 'remember function results, trading space for time', 'memoize "stat"'],
['MIME::Base64' => 'base64 encoded strings as in email attachments'],
- [open => 'set default PerlIO layers'],
['Test::More' => 'modern framework for unit testing', 'is $got, $expected'],
['Time::HiRes' => 'high resolution timers', '$μs = [gettimeofday]; sleep .1; $elapsed = tv_interval $μs'],
],
@@ -109,6 +119,13 @@ use utf8;
['my $_
', 'lexically scoped version of the default variable', {experimental => 'lexical_topic', dropped => v5.23.4}],
['state
', 'persistent my
variables (scalars only until 5.28)', {feature => 'state'}],
],
+ modules => [
+ [autodie => 'replace builtin functions to throw exceptions instead of returning failure', 'eval {open ...} or $@->matches("open") || die'],
+ # overloading
+ ['IO::Compress::Zip' => 'various file compression standards', 'zip IO::Uncompress::Gunzip->new("test.gz") => "recompressed.zip"'],
+ ['Time::Piece' => 'timestamps as objects', 'localtime->year > 1900'],
+ ['File::Fetch' => 'generic data retrieval/download', 'File::Fetch->new(uri => "http://localhost/")->fetch(to => \$slurp)'],
+ ],
release => '2007-12-18',
distro => {
debian => '5.0', # lenny 2009-02 eol 2012-02
@@ -155,6 +172,11 @@ use utf8;
['FH->method
', 'filehandle method calls load IO::File on demand (eg. STDOUT->flush
)'],
['\o{}
', 'escape sequence for octal values beyond \777'],
],
+ modules => [
+ [JSON => 'interface with data in JavaScript Object Notation', 'decode_json <>'],
+ ['HTTP::Tiny' => 'minimal HTTP/1.1 client without LWP::UserAgent
overhead'],
+ # Unicode::Collate::Locale
+ ],
release => '2011-05-14',
distro => {
debian => '7', # wheezy 2013-05 eol 2018-05 elts 2020-06
@@ -257,6 +279,9 @@ use utf8;
['@{^CAPTURE}
', q"array of last match's captures, so ${^CAPTURE}[0]
is $1
"],
['//xx
', 'extended modifier to also ignore whitespace in bracketed character classes'],
],
+ modules => [
+ ['Test2::V0' => 'generic testing framework to replace Test::*
and TAP::*
'],
+ ],
unicode => '9.0', # also Script_Extensions/scx in "\p{script}"
release => '2017-05-30',
distro => {