perl: summarise v5.34 release

diff --git a/perl.inc.pl b/perl.inc.pl
index 892112d49a4b00dd7a185d04dc54957c8cf530a2..9d416eb4de5b626a6f7eb6f651e15f8b03375900 100644 (file)
--- a/perl.inc.pl
+++ b/perl.inc.pl
@@ -275,4 +275,15 @@ use utf8;
                release => '2020-06-20',
                details => 'https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2020/01/perl-v5-32-new-features/',
        },
+
+       v5.34 => {
+               new => [
+                       ['<code>try {} catch</code>', 'exception handling similar to eval blocks', {experimental => 'try'}],
+                       ['<code>/{,<i>n</i>}/</code>', 'empty lower bound quantifier is accepted as shorthand for 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(qr//)</code>', 'debug regular expression optimization information discovered at compile time'],
+               ],
+               release => '2021-05-20',
+       },
 }