On Mon Jun 24 06:55:15 2013, davem wrote: > Actually that's not strictly true. > The full fix for $`,$&,$' performance issues involves the new COW > mechanism, which was disabled by default in 5.18 (and enabled by default > in 5.19.1). > [snip] > Even if had been fixed in 5.18.0, I think that the text in perlvars > warning that in older versions the puncuation vars are slow, should be > kept. Right. The English.pm documentation has already a warning about it for older versions, would just require an update for mentioning 5.19 or 5.20 instead of 5.18. That is simpler than having such warning all around in other docs which makes use of English.pm --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: resolved https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=118593Thread Previous | Thread Next