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From:
Wallace Reis via RT
Date:
June 24, 2013 14:05
Subject:
[perl #118593] [PATCH 1/4] Fix docs about English.pm
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-2552-1372082714-1065.118593-15-0@perl.org
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




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