Revision history for constant
1.20 2011.04.16 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) #PerlQA2011
[CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
- [perl #68640] Wrong error for undef constant name (Zefram).
[DIST] CPAN-RT #66727: Add explicit configure_requires to Build.PL
(David Golden).
1.19 2009.09.12 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[CODE] Optimisation: Avoid unnecessary flushing of the caller
package's MRO cache (Nicholas Clark).
[CODE] Optimisation: Use the internal constant _CAN_PCS to optimise
out things that can't happen pre 5.10 (Nicholas Clark).
1.18 2009.08.18 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[CODE] Optimisation: Generate perl version-dependent regexps once,
rather than every call to import (Nicholas Clark).
[CODE] Optimisation: Convert perl version check in import() from
run time to compile time (Nicholas Clark).
[TESTS] Re-added pseudohashes tests that were removed at some point
from bleadperl (Nicholas Clark).
1.17 2008.10.29 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[TESTS] Moved the TRAILING test from t/constant.t to t/more-tests.t
in order to avoid FAIL reports when executed with Test::More 0.82+
1.16 2008.09.21 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[DOC] The copyright section is also the license.
[DOC] Added a SEE ALSO section.
[DOC] Converted files to UTF-8.
[DOC] Improved the description in README.
1.15 2007.12.31 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[TEST] Adjusted t/constant.t to how empty prototypes are reported
among different versions of Perl (thus fixing the FAIL reports for
Perl 5.8.0 to 5.8.3).
1.14 2007.12.27 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[DIST] CPAN-RT#31627: Specify core install dir in Build.PL.
Thanks to Michael G Schwern.
1.13 2007.12.27 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[CODE] Merged changed blead@32338: UNITCHECK is only a keyword
post 5.009 (Nicholas Clark).
[DIST] Copied the sysnopsis into eg/
1.12 2007.11.06 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[DIST] CPAN-RT#30460: The module must be installed in core, not in
site (because it get shadowed). Thanks to Imacat.
1.11 2007.09.25 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
[CODE] Fixed code and tests so everything work under Perl 5.005.
[DOC] Some Pod nits. Added information about current maintainers.
1.10 2007.04.19
blead@30980: C3 MRO support (Brandon L Black).
blead@30824: Small fix for Symbian (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
1.09 2007.03.13
blead@30561: Inform constant.pm about UNITCHECK (Joshua ben Jore).
1.08 2007.02.13
blead@30255: Remove some debugging code (Nicholas Clark).
blead@26502: Use Internals::inc_sub_generation() to invalidate
cached methods (Nicholas Clark).
1.07 2005.12.26
blead@26487: Rework constant.pm to take advantage of the space
savings of proxy constant subroutines whenever it can (Nicholas Clark).
blead@26485: Factore caller() call out of the loop (Nicholas Clark).
1.06 2005.12.24
blead@26483: Using a hash reference rather than a hash can save a
hash copy (Nicholas Clark).
1.05 2004.11.12
blead@23497: Silence an unnecessary warning (Anno Siegel).
1.04 2001.07.29
blead@12097, 11473: Major POD rewrite (Ilmari Karonen).
1.03 2001.06.29
blead@8240: Declare multiple constants at once (Casey West).
1.02 2000.03.13
blead@5702: Use warnings::register (Paul Marquess).
blead@5463: Relax restrictions on constant names a bit (M J T Guy).
blead@4905: STOP blocks have been renamed to CHECK (Gurusamy Sarathy).
1.01 1999.12.28
blead@4718: New version of constant.pm from Tom Phoenix; added Tom's
notes to perldelta; added STOP, DESTROY and AUTOLOAD to specials list
blead@2029: Restore sanity to "constant" references (Gurusamy Sarathy).
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