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diff --git a/perl.inc.pl b/perl.inc.pl
index 1381ea3..ee6d9a2 100644
--- a/perl.inc.pl
+++ b/perl.inc.pl
@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@ use utf8;
v5.6 => {
new => [
['use warnings', 'pragma to enable warnings in lexical scope'],
- ['use utf8', 'experimental unicode semantics (completed in v5.8)', v5.8],
+ ['use utf8', 'experimental unicode semantics (completed in v5.8)', {experimental => 0, stable => v5.8}],
['use charnames', 'string escape \N{} to insert named character'],
['our', 'declare global variables'],
['v1.2.3', q"represent strings as vector of ordinals, useful in version numbers (printf '%vd' to display)"],
['0b0', q"binary numbers in literals, printf '%b', and oct"],
- ['sub :lvalue', 'subroutine attribute to return a modifiable value', v5.20],
+ ['sub :lvalue', 'subroutine attribute to return a modifiable value', {experimental => 0, stable => v5.20}],
# ['sub :locked :method', 'syntax to declare subroutine attributes'], # can be inferred from :lvalue support
['open my $fh, $mode, $expr', 'file handles in scoped scalars, third argument for unambiguous file name'],
- [q"pack 'q'", '64-bit integer support (also large files >2GiB)', v5.8.1],
+ [q"pack 'q'", '64-bit integer support (also large files >2GiB)', {experimental => 0, stable => v5.8.1}],
['sort $coderef ()', 'comparison function can be a subroutine reference; prototype ($$) to pass elements as normal @_'],
['CHECK {}', 'special block called at end of compilation'],
['/[[:â¦:]]/', 'POSIX character class syntax such as /[[:alpha:]]/'],
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ use utf8;
debian => 'woody',
rhel => '2', # v5.6.0; also in red hat 7.0
solaris => '9', # v5.6.1; 2002-05 eol 2014-10
+ aix => '5.1', # 2001-05 eol 2006-04
},
unicode => '3.0.1',
},
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ use utf8;
rhel => '3', # v5.8.0; v5.8.8 in RHEL6 (2007-2014)
solaris => '10', # v5.8.4; 2005-01 eol 2021-01
centos => '3-5', # v5.8.0 in v3 (2004-03); v5.8.8 in v5 (eol 2017-03)
+ ubuntu => '4.10',
+ aix => '5.2', # v5.8.0; v5.8.2 in 5.3 and 6.1 (eol 2017-04-30)
},
unicode => '3.2.0',
},
@@ -50,35 +53,42 @@ use utf8;
v5.10 => {
new => [
['//', 'defined-or operator'],
- ['~~', 'smart-match operator to compare different data types (updated in v5.10.1)', 'experimental::smartmatch'],
- ['given', 'switch statement to smart-match with when/default', 'experimental::smartmatch'],
+ ['~~', 'smart-match operator to compare different data types (updated in v5.10.1)', {experimental => 'smartmatch'}],
+ ['say', 'print with newline, equivalent to print @_, "\n"', {feature => 'say'}],
+ ['given', 'switch statement to smart-match with when/default', {feature => 'switch', experimental => 'smartmatch'}],
['/(?<name>)/', 'named capture buffers into %+'],
+ ['/(?1)/', 'recursive regular expression patterns'],
+ ['/.++/', 'possessive quantifiers ?+, *+, ++ to match greedily'],
['s/keep\K//', 'floating positive lookbehind, efficient alternative for s/(keep)/$1/'],
['/\v/, /\h/', 'vertical and horizontal whitespace escapes'],
- ['my $_', 'lexically scoped version of the default variable', v0.5.23.4, 'experimental::lexical_topic'],
+ ['my $_', 'lexically scoped version of the default variable', {experimental => 'lexical_topic', dropped => v5.23.4}],
+ ['state', 'persistent my variables', {feature => 'state'}],
],
release => '2007-12-18',
distro => {
debian => 'lenny',
rhel => '6', # v5.10.1
centos => '6', # v5.10.1 (2011-07 eol 2020-11)
+ ubuntu => '8.10', # v5.10.1 in 10.04 LTS
+ aix => '7.1', # v5.10.1 (2010-09 eol 2020?)
},
unicode => '5.0.0',
},
v5.12 => {
new => [
- ['package version', 'package NAME VERSION shorthand for our $VERSION'],
+ ['package version', 'package NAME VERSION shorthand for our $VERSION'],
['...', 'yada-yada operator: code placeholder'],
['use 5.012', 'implicit strict if use VERSION >= v5.12'],
['⦠when', 'when is now allowed to be used as a statement modifier'],
[q"use overload 'qr'", 'customisable conversion to regular expressions'],
- ['/\N/', 'inverse \n to match any character except newline regardless of /s', v5.18],
+ ['/\N/', 'inverse \n to match any character except newline regardless of /s', {experimental => 0, stable => v5.18}],
],
release => '2010-04-12',
unicode => '5.2',
distro => {
solaris => '11', # also v5.8.4; 2010-11 eol 2024-11
+ ubuntu => '11.10',
},
},
@@ -86,22 +96,23 @@ use utf8;
new => [
['s///r', 'non-destructive substitution'],
['/(?^)/', 'construct to reset to default modifiers'],
- ['/(?{ m() })/', 'regular expressions can be nested in /(?{})/ and /(??{})/', v5.20],
+ ['/(?{ m() })/', 'regular expressions can be nested in /(?{})/ and /(??{})/', {experimental => 0, stable => v5.20}],
[q"use re '/flags'", 'customise default modifiers'],
- ['each $ref e.a.', 'array and hash container functions accept references', v0.5.23.1],
+ ['each $ref e.a.', 'array and hash container functions accept references', {experimental => 'postderef', dropped => v5.23.1}],
['FH->method', 'filehandle method calls load IO::File on demand (eg. STDOUT->flush)'],
],
release => '2011-05-14',
distro => {
debian => 'wheezy',
+ ubuntu => '12.04',
},
unicode => '6.0+#8',
},
v5.16 => {
new => [
- ['__SUB__', 'current subroutine reference'],
- ['fc, "\F"', 'unicode foldcase to compare case-insensitively'],
+ ['__SUB__', 'current subroutine reference', {feature => 'current_sub'}],
+ ['fc, "\F"', 'unicode foldcase to compare case-insensitively', {feature => 'fc'}],
['"\N{}"', 'automatic use charnames qw( :full :short )'],
],
release => '2012-05-20',
@@ -115,50 +126,67 @@ use utf8;
v5.18 => {
new => [
['${^LAST_FH}', 'last read filehandle (used by $.)'],
- ['/(?[ a + b ])/', 'regex set operations (character substraction -, unions &)', 'experimental::regex_sets'],
- ['my sub', 'lexical subroutines (also state, our)', 'experimental::lexical_subs'],
+ ['/(?[ a + b ])/', 'regex set operations (character substraction -, unions &)', {experimental => 'regex_sets'}],
+ ['my sub', 'lexical subroutines (also state, our); buggy before v5.22', {feature => 'lexical_subs', experimental => 'lexical_subs'}],
['next $expression', 'loop controls allow runtime expressions'],
- [q"no warnings 'experimental::â¦'", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for smartmatch'],
+ [q"no warnings 'experimental::â¦'", 'mechanism for experimental features, as of now required for smartmatch'],
],
release => '2013-05-18',
+ distro => {
+ ubuntu => '14.04',
+ },
unicode => '6.2',
},
v5.20 => {
new => [
- ['sub ($var)', 'subroutine signatures', 'experimental::signatures'],
+ ['sub ($var)', 'subroutine signatures', {feature => 'signatures', experimental => 'signatures'}],
['%hash{â¦}', 'hash slices return key+value pairs'],
- ['[]->@*', 'postfix dereferencing (also e.g. $scalar->$* for $$scalar)', v5.23.1, 'experimental::postderef'],
+ ['[]->@*', 'postfix dereferencing (also e.g. $scalar->$* for $$scalar)', {feature => 'postderef, postderef_qq', experimental => 'postderef', stable => v5.23.1}],
[q"use warnings 'once'; $a", 'variables $a and $b are exempt from used once warnings'],
],
unicode => '6.3',
release => '2014-05-27',
distro => {
debian => 'jessie',
+ ubuntu => '14.10',
+ aix => '7.2',
},
},
v5.22 => {
new => [
- ['\$alias =', 'aliasing via reference'],
+ ['\$alias =', 'aliasing via reference (scoped as of v5.25.3)', {experimental => 'refaliasing'}],
['<<>>', 'safe readline ignoring open flags in arguments'],
['/()/n', 'flag to disable numbered capturing, turning () into (?:)'],
['/\b{}/', 'boundary types: gcb (grapheme cluster), sb (sentence), wb (word)'],
- ['&.', '& | ^ ~ consistently numeric, dotted operators for strings', 'experimental::bitwise'],
- [q"use re 'strict'", 'apply stricter syntax rules to regular expression patterns', 'experimental::re_strict'],
+ ['&.', '& | ^ ~ consistently numeric, dotted operators for strings', {experimental => 'bitwise'}],
+ [q"use re 'strict'", 'apply stricter syntax rules to regular expression patterns', {experimental => 're_strict'}],
['0x.beep+0', q"hexadecimal floating point notation with binary power; printf '%a' to display"],
],
unicode => '7.0',
release => '2015-06-01',
+ distro => {
+ ubuntu => '16.04',
+ },
},
- v5.23.8 => {
+ v5.24 => {
new => [
[q"printf '%.*2$x'", 'reordered precision arguments'],
['/\b{lb}/', 'line break boundary type (position suitable for hyphenation)'],
+ ['/faster/', 'various significant speedups, notably matching fixed substrings, /i on caseless languages, 64-bit arithmetic, scope overhead'],
],
unicode => '8.0',
- release => '2016',
- unstable => 1,
+ release => '2016-05-09',
+ },
+
+ v5.25.8 => {
+ new => [
+ ['<<~EOT', 'indented here-docs, strips same whitespace before delimiter in each line'],
+ ['@{^CAPTURE}', q"array of last match's captures, so @{^CAPTURE}[0] is $1"],
+ ],
+ unicode => '9.0', # also Script_Extensions/scx in "\p{script}"
+ release => '2016-12-20',
},
}