Branch: refs/heads/yves/force_upgrade_var
Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5
Commit: c9f556734209c569d4f9b642114d060e579de2b5
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/c9f556734209c569d4f9b642114d060e579de2b5
Author: Yves Orton <demer...@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-10-30 (Sun, 30 Oct 2022)
Changed paths:
M gv.c
M lib/utf8.pm
M pod/perldelta.pod
M pod/perlvar.pod
Log Message:
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gv.c - add ${^FORCE_UPGRADE} for triggering upgrade by concatenation
This is a readonly global variable which contains an upgraded empty
string (eg UTF8-on). When concatenated into a string it (like any other
upgraded string) causes the resulting string to also be upgraded.
Similar to calling utf8::upgrade() on the string, but suitable for use
in double quoted strings or regex patterns or other places where adding
a utf8::upgrade() call might be awkward.
Assuming this gets merged I can think of some test code that could
be cleaned up by using this, and I definitely would use it in one-liners
and what not as well.
