From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 01:12:42 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldelta for [perl #87708]
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~4460
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24b164a5f9236bb5123fd1b0c5bc5f8577b30ad2;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

perldelta for [perl #87708]

In fixing the regression that #87708 represents, I could not avoid
also fixing this swapped-operand bug, so it needs a perldelta entry.

I also fixed a tiny formatting error.
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 5e9daa9..2c1f264 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -3897,13 +3897,21 @@ utf8::is_utf8 now respects get-magic (e.g. $1) (5.12.1).
 
 =item *
 
+Non-commutative binary operators used to swap their operands if the same
+tied scalar was used for both operands and returned a different value for
+each FETCH. For instance, if C<$t> returned 2 the first time and 3 the
+second, then C<$t/$t> would evaluate to 1.5. This has been fixed
+[perl #87708].
+
+=item *
+
 String C<eval> now detects taintedness of overloaded or tied
 arguments [perl #75716].
 
 =item *
 
 String C<eval> and regular expression matches against objects with string
-overloading no longer cause memory corruption or crashes [perl 77084].
+overloading no longer cause memory corruption or crashes [perl #77084].
 
 =item *