In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/623141a15393d2fb245027a0425b976f2853da3a?hp=68567d271d7bcc0392c9f9bdd834ad94db1e4773>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 623141a15393d2fb245027a0425b976f2853da3a Author: Father Chrysostomos <[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 18 22:12:39 2014 -0700 perldelta for d8c6310a4f0/#121638 M pod/perldelta.pod commit fb3b7425170de063ac1b9f0bd666cbf128047f8e Author: Father Chrysostomos <[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 18 22:04:04 2014 -0700 perldelta for 343573e55 (the 25-year-old bug) M pod/perldelta.pod commit dd593f1dee574f75d0dc61dc6ffd020ba0d29f15 Author: Father Chrysostomos <[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 18 22:00:43 2014 -0700 perldelta for ff2a62e0/#15667 M pod/perldelta.pod ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perldelta.pod | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 21a560b..03fa694 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -393,7 +393,10 @@ XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here =item * -XXX Describe change here +L<Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name|perldiag/Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my %s"?)> + +This message has had '(did you forget to declare "my %s"?)' appended to it, +to make it more helpful to new Perl programmers. [perl #121638] =back @@ -735,6 +738,19 @@ them as "(unknown)". C<sort subname LIST> now supports lexical subs for the comparison routine. +=item * + +Aliasing (e.g., via C<*x = *y>) could confuse list assignments that mention +the two names for the same variable on either side, causing wrong values to +be assigned. [perl #15667] + +=item * + +Long here-doc terminators could cause a bad read on short lines of input. +This has been fixed. It is doubtful that any crash could have occurred. +This bug goes back to when here-docs were introduced in perl 3.000 +twenty-five years ago. + =back =head1 Known Problems -- Perl5 Master Repository
