From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 05:01:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldelta for setting $^N
X-Git-Tag: upstream/5.20.0~6793
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba0d99eed01fe3c364fd2d5dd4da59cc68b0ceef;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

perldelta for setting $^N
---

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index c821a03..dd3bdcb 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -343,6 +343,12 @@ A call checker attached to a closure prototype via C<cv_set_call_checker>
 is now copied to closures cloned from it.  So C<cv_set_call_checker> now
 works inside an attribute handler for a closure.
 
+=item *
+
+Writing to C<$^N> used to have no effect.  Now it croaks with "Modification
+of a read-only value" by default, but that can be overridden by a custom
+regular expression engine, as with C<$1> [perl #112184].
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems