From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:29:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldelta for format parsing fixes
X-Git-Tag: upstream/5.20.0~5769
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a21a3918ca29e9645e6e2cf5f4f62bc70aed3a38;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

perldelta for format parsing fixes
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index b14370c..50f03da 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -524,6 +524,21 @@ but each recursive call has its own set of lexicals.
 Attempting to free an active format or the handle associated with it no
 longer results in a crash.
 
+=item *
+
+Format parsing no longer gets confused by braces, semicolons and
+low-precedence operators.  It used to be possible to use braces as format
+delimiters (instead of C<=> and C<.>), but only sometimes.  Semicolons and
+low-precedence operators in format argument lines no longer confuse the
+parser into ignoring the line's return value.  In format argument lines,
+braces can now be used for anonymous hashes, instead of being treated
+always as C<do> blocks.
+
+=item *
+
+Formats can now be nested inside code blocks in regular expressions and
+other quoted constructs (C</(?{...})/> and C<qq/${...}/>) [perl #114040].
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems