Changes

Revision history for Syntax-Construct

1.040   2025-01-20
        - Documentation link fixed (wrong letter case)

1.039   2025-01-20
        - Perl 5.40.1 released

1.038   2024-10-01
        - Add "split-space"

1.037   2024-06-20
        - Fix turkic casing: reset original locale

1.036   2024-06-12
        - Fix treating some stable versions as unstable

1.035   2024-06-10
        - Perl 5.40.0 released

1.034   2023-11-30
        - Perl 5.38.2 released

1.033   2023-07-05
        - Perl 5.38.0 released

1.032   2023-05-03
        - Perl 5.36.1 released

1.031   2023-01-24
        - Year 2023

1.030   2022-10-14
        - Fix doc links

1.029   2022-10-14
        - Add no-sigil (removed in 5.022)

1.028   2022-06-20
        - Add charnames to 5.016

1.027   2022-05-30
        - Minor doc fixes

1.026   2022-05-30
        - Perl 5.036 released

1.025   2022-03-18
        - Perl 5.34.1 released

1.024   2022-01-09
        - Even less annoying warnings about non-stable Perl versions

1.023   2022-01-09
        - Less annoying warnings about non-stable Perl versions

1.022   2021-07-30
        - Add scalar%

1.021   2021-05-25
        - Fix tests on locale sensitive Perl builds

1.020   2021-05-24
        - Fix perldelta links
        - Add "method-on-any-string" for 5.018
        - Add "RE_COMPILE_RECURSION_LIMIT" for 5.030
        - Improve doc and error messages

1.019   2021-05-24
        - Perl 5.34 was released
        - pack byte order modifiers added to 5.010

1.018   2020-07-05
        - Better links in perldelta

1.017   2020-07-05
        - Perl 5.32 was released

1.016   2020-01-12
        - Fix MANIFEST.SKIP and the related test
        - Two aliases added: unicode-12.1 and list-context-state
          (thanks Branislav Zahradnik)

1.015   2020-01-04
        - Links fixed after 5.30.1 release (thanks Mohammad S Anwar)

1.014   2019-06-20
        - Correctly skip tests of turkic casing

1.013   2019-06-18

        - Rework tests
        - Turkic casing only works if the underlying OS supports it

1.012   2019-06-11

        - Fix broken link to perl5220delta

1.011   2019-06-09

        - Fix link to documentation of for-qw

1.010   2019-06-09

        - Add @_=split
        - Add prototype+ (thanks Chris White)
        - Fix the version of the removal of for-qw, it was removed in
          5.18, 5.14 was just its deprecation
        - Improve tests: test that removed constructs don't work in
          later versions

1.009   2019-06-07

        - Perl 5.30 was released
        - Test that constructs return a wrong value in older versions,
          add a flag for tests that fail only sometimes
        - Fix missing or wrong tests

1.008   2018-09-26

        - Fix links to 5.26 delta
        - Add aliases (thanks Branislav Zahradnik)

1.007   2018-06-26

        - Workaround threaded 5.10.0 throwing "Modification of a
          read-only value attemted" for eval '?x?'
        - Unicode delimiters hack doesn't work in 5.8.0

1.006   2018-06-25

        - Fix tests for 5.8.X

1.005   2018-06-25

        - Perl 5.28
        - Fix version check (for older Perls).
        - Added ?? and for-qw to removed constructs.
        - "Good Practice" section in the POD.

1.004   2017-08-16

        - Unified error messages

1.003   2017-06-08

        - More fixes for 5.6.2

1.002   2017-06-05

        - Don't fail 02-constructs in 5.6.2

1.001   2017-06-01

        - Perl 5.26
        - Comment on Accepted Features

0.29    2017-01-28

        - UTF-8 delimiters within substitution

0.28    2016-08-16

        - versions represented as strings instead of floats

0.27    2016-07-15

        - fix drand48 test failure on OpenBSD
        - warn if $Config{randfunc} ne 'Perl_drand48'

0.25    2016-07-14

        - add srand-return
        - add author test to check Changes

0.24    2016-06-26

        - \v and \h added.
        - while-each added.

0.23    2016-05-10

        - Links to perldelta hopefully fixed.

0.22    2016-05-10

        - perl 5.24 released
        - lexical $_ added to 5.10 (removed in 5.24)

0.21    2016-02-12

        - links fixed (after 5.22.1 release)

0.20    2015-11-05

        - fixed test for fileno-dir: not supported on MSWin, skip the
          test if cwd can't be opened

0.19    2015-09-02

        - "deprecation" renamed to "removal"

0.18    2015-09-01

        - No construct starts with a colon, they are reserved for tags.

0.17    2015-08-28

        - Support for deprecated constructs.
        - Documentation improved.
        - Minor fixes (\b{}).

0.16    2015-06-02

        - Perl 5.22 added.
        - Lexical subs removed (they're a feature).
        - Better test counting.

0.15    2015-04-29

        - package-block added.

0.14    2015-01-29

        - while (readdir) added.

0.13    2014-09-16

        - perldelta moved to perl5200delta

0.12    2014-08-25

        - license name fixed

0.11    2014-08-25

        - No PAX headers in the tar file.

0.10    2014-08-16

        - Link to github repo.

0.09    2014-08-16

        - Perl 5.20 supported.
        - Links simplified to work both in cpan.org and metacpan.org.

0.08    2014-05-02

        - Fixing links.

0.07    2014-04-29

        - Documenting 5.14.
        - Some links are still wrong.

0.06    2014-04-28

        - Documenting 5.10.

0.05    2014-04-23

        - Documenting 5.12.

0.04    2014-04-23

        - Links to perldelta for 5.18.

0.03    2014-01-18

        - Removed %vd from sprintf, no v-strings.
        - Completness test added.

0.02    2014-01-17

        - Fixed synopsis, more constructs.

0.01    2013-12-23

        - First version, published for comments.