In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e6132dc079934a742aa3f346fceb6cb20e5dd8c2?hp=d1bc97feec1ac3a922c2ff2e27c9f517722cc565>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit e6132dc079934a742aa3f346fceb6cb20e5dd8c2 Author: Tony Cook <[email protected]> Date: Thu Aug 8 11:18:38 2019 +1000 perldelta for d1bc97feec1a ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perldelta.pod | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index c988864969..49b2a7dead 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: [ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ] +=head2 Plain "0" string now treated as a number for range operator + +Previously a range C< "0" .. "-1" > would produce a range of numeric +strings from "0" through "99", this now produces an empty list, just +as C< 0 .. -1 > does. + +This was due to a special case that treated strings starting with "0" +as strings so ranges like C< "00" .. "03" > produced C< "00", "01", +"02", "03" >, but didn't specially handle the string C<"0">. + +[perl #133695] + =head1 Deprecations XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here. -- Perl5 Master Repository
