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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index d7d119abe7..5a1f45388e 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -58,12 +58,6 @@ C<sb> stands for Sentence Boundary. It is a Unicode property to aid in parsing natural language sentences. See L<perlrebackslash/\b{}, \b, \B{}, \B> for details. -=head2 C<no re> covers more and is lexical - -Previously running C<no re> would turn off only a few things. Now it -turns off all the enabled things. For example, previously, you -couldn't turn off debugging, once enabled, inside the same block. - =head2 Non-Capturing Regular Expression Flag Regular expressions now support a C</n> flag that disables capturing @@ -2960,6 +2954,15 @@ records the value of C<$!>, too, and C<close> restores it. =item * +C<no re> now can turn off everything that C<use re> enables + +Previously, running C<no re> would turn off only a few things. Now it +can turn off all the enabled things. For example, the only way to +stop debugging, once enabled, was to exit the enclosing block; that is +now fixed. + +=item * + C<pack("D", $x)> and C<pack("F", $x)> now zero the padding on x86 long double builds. Under some build options on GCC 4.8 and later, they used to either overwrite the zero-initialized padding, or bypass the |