From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:28:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldelta entries for 088225f
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~4429
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e925ecb7bdbde03e6b1c74f119c1d7cc612cd00;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

perldelta entries for 088225f
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index aa7416e..d7fa8e4 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -701,6 +701,15 @@ Therefore, as an exception to the general rule, local($_) will not
 only assign a new value to $_, but also remove all existing magic from
 it as well.
 
+=head3 Parsing of package and variable names
+
+The parsing of the names of packages and package variables has changed, in
+that multiple adjacent pairs of colons (as in foo::::bar) are all treated
+as package separators.
+
+Regardless of this change, the exact parsing of package separators has
+never been guaranteed and is subject to change in future Perl versions.
+
 =head2 Changes to Syntax or to Perl Operators
 
 =head3 C<given> return values
@@ -3729,6 +3738,11 @@ case.  The __ANON__ package is now used also when the original package is
 no longer attached to the symbol table.  This avoids memory leaks in some
 cases [perl #87664].
 
+=item *
+
+Subroutines and package variables inside a package whose name ends with
+"::" can now be accessed with a fully qualified name.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Unicode