['<code>/(?[ a + b ])/</code>', 'regex set operations (character subtraction <code>-</code>, union <code>+</code>, intersection <code>&</code>, xor <code>^</code>)', {experimental => 'regex_sets', stable => v5.36}],
['<code>my sub</code>', 'lexical subroutines (also <code>state</code>, <code>our</code>); buggy before v5.22', {experimental => 'lexical_subs', stable => v5.26}],
['<code>next $expression</code>', 'loop controls allow runtime expressions'],
- [q"<code>no warnings 'experimental::…'</code>", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for <em>smartmatch</em>'],
+ [q"<code>no warnings 'experimental::…'</code>", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for <a href="#switch">smartmatch</a>'],
],
release => '2013-05-18',
distro => {
v5.22 => {
new => [
['<code>\$alias =</code>', 'aliasing via reference (scoped as of v5.25.3)', {experimental => 'refaliasing'}],
- ['<code><<>></code>', 'safe <code>readline</code> ignoring open flags in arguments'],
+ ['<code><<…>></code>', 'safe <code>readline</code> ignoring open flags in arguments'],
['<code>/()/n</code>', 'flag to disable numbered capturing, turning <code>()</code> into <code>(?:)</code>'],
['<code>/\b{}/</code>', 'boundary types: <em>gcb</em> (grapheme cluster), <em>sb</em> (sentence), <em>wb</em> (word)'],
['<code>&.</code>', '<code>& | ^ ~</code> consistently numeric, dotted operators for strings', {feature => 'bitwise', experimental => 'bitwise', stable => v5.28}],
['<code>$min < $_ <= $max</code>', 'chained comparison repeats inner part as <code>$min < $_ and $_ <= $max</code>'],
['<code>/\p{Name=$var}/</code>', 'match Unicode Name property like <code>\N{}</code> but with interpolation and subpatterns'],
[q"<code>open F, '+>>', undef</code>", 'respect append mode on temporary files with mixed access'],
- ["<code>no feature 'indirect'</code>", 'disable indirect object notation such as <code>new Class</code> instead of <code>Class->new</code>'],
+ ["<code>no feature 'indirect'</code>", 'disable indirect object notation such as <code>new Class</code> instead of <code>Class->new</code>, enforced since use <a href="#v5036">5.36</a>', {name => 'indirect'}],
['streamzip', 'program distributed with core IO::Compress::Base to compress stdin into a zip container'],
],
unicode => '13.0',
['<code>\x{ … }</code>', 'insignificant space within curly braces, also for <code>\b{}</code>, <code>\g{}</code>, <code>\k{}</code>, <code>\N{}</code>, <code>\o{}</code> as well as <code>/{m,n}/</code> quantifiers'],
['<code>0o0</code>', 'octal prefix <code>0o</code> alternative to <code>0…</code> and <code>oct</code>'],
["<code>re::optimization(${wbr}qr//)</code>", 'debug regular expression optimization information discovered at compile time'],
- ['<code>no feature …</code>', 'disable discouraged practices of <code>bareword_filehandles</code> and <code>multidimensional</code> array emulation'],
+ ['<code>no feature …</code>', 'disable discouraged practices of <code>multidimensional</code> and <code>bareword_filehandles</code> array emulation, applied in <a href="#v5036">5.36</a> and <a href="#v5038">5.38</a>', {name => 'feature_534'}],
],
release => '2021-05-20',
distro => {
v5.36 => {
new => [
- ['<code>use v5.36</code>', "use <code>warnings</code>; use feature qw'<code>signatures isa</code>'; no feature qw'<code>indirect multidimensional switch</code>'"],
+ ['<code>use v5.36</code>', q{use <code><a href="#warnings">warnings</a></code>; use feature qw'<code><a href="#signature">signatures</a> <a href="#isa">isa</a></code>'; no feature qw'<code><a href="#indirect">indirect</a> <a href="#feature_534">multidimensional</a> <a href="#switch">switch</a></code>'}],
['<code>use builtin</code>', 'namespace for interpreter functions, such as <code>weaken</code> and <code>blessed</code> from <code>Scalar::Util</code>, <code>ceil</code>/<code>floor</code> from <code>POSIX</code>, and <code>trim</code> like <code>String::Util</code>', {experimental => 'builtin', stable => v5.40}],
['<code>is_bool(!0)</code>', 'distinguish scalar variable types (by <code>builtin</code> functions) for data interoperability', {name => 'is_bool'}],
['<code>for my ($k, $v) (%hash)</code>', 'iterate over multiple values at a time (including <code>builtin::indexed</code> for arrays)', {experimental => 'for_list', feature => 'for_list', stable => v5.40}],
v5.38 => {
new => [
- ['<code>use feature "module_true"</code>', 'default in use 5.37 and up, also <code>no feature "bareword_filehandles"</code>'],
+ ['<code>use feature "module_true"</code>', 'default in use 5.37 and up, also <code>no feature "<a href="#feature_534">bareword_filehandles</a>"</code>'],
['<code>sub ($var ||=</code> default<code>)</code>', 'assign values when false (or undefined on <code>//=</code>) instead of omitted'],
['<code>/(*{ … })/</code>', 'optimistic eval: <code>(?{ … })</code> with regex optimisations enabled'],
['<code>class</code>', "define object classes: packages with <code>field</code> variables and <code>method</code> subroutines", {feature => 'class', experimental => 'class'}],