In perl.git, the branch autarch/release-5.17.7 has been updated
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commit 6911642dca720085994567510f76a41634da2959
Author: Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org>
Date: Mon Dec 17 15:32:35 2012 -0600
Better description of hash assignment bug fixes
M pod/perldelta.pod
commit 199840278c1b2915553fed5155eb43e8898acba7
Author: Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org>
Date: Mon Dec 17 15:31:26 2012 -0600
Clarify hash assignment bug fix in list context
M pod/perldelta.pod
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 3415403..a2392a2 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -361,7 +361,8 @@ _charnames from loading via C<$INC{'_charnames.pm'}++>.
=item *
-A number of bugs related to hash assignment have been fixed:
+A number of bugs related to assigning a list to hash have been fixed. Many of
+these involve lists with repeated keys like C<(1, 1, 1, 1)>.
=over 8
@@ -371,12 +372,13 @@ The expression C<scalar(%h = (1, 1, 1, 1))> now returns
C<4>, not C<2>.
=item -
-Perl now issues the same warning on C<($s, %h) = (1, {})> as it does for
-C<(%h) = ({})>, "Reference found where even-sized list expected".
+The return value of C<%h = (1, 1, 1)> in list context was wrong. Previously
+this would return C<(1, undef, 1)>, now it returns C<(1, undef)>.
=item -
-The return value of C<%h = (1, 1, 1)> in list context was wrong.
+Perl now issues the same warning on C<($s, %h) = (1, {})> as it does for
+C<(%h) = ({})>, "Reference found where even-sized list expected".
=item -
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