From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:39:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: perldelta for #70151
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~2123
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cca38fda51b9e232acf5d92b06d2c4b0af253f62;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

perldelta for #70151
---

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index f1c506a..fdf8aba 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -639,6 +639,13 @@ Creating a BEGIN block from XS code (via C<newXS> or C<newATTRSUB>) would,
 on completion, make the hints of the current compiling code the current
 hints.  This could cause warnings to occur in a non-warning scope.
 
+=item *
+
+C<eval $string> and C<require> no longer localise hints (C<$^H> and C<%^H>)
+at run time, but only during compilation of the $string or required file.
+This makes C<BEGIN { $^H{foo}=7 }> equivalent to
+C<BEGIN { eval '$^H{foo}=7' }> [perl #70151].
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems