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NAME

Syntax::Construct - Identify which non-feature constructs are used in the code.

VERSION

Version 0.08

SYNOPSIS

For some new syntactic constructs, there is the feature pragma. For the rest, there is Syntax::Construct.

  use Syntax::Construct qw( // ... /r );

  my $x = shift // 'default';
  my $y = $x =~ s/de(fault)/$1/r;
  if ($y =~ /^fault/) {
      ...
  }

EXPORT

Nothing. Using Syntax::Construct with no parameters is an error, giving it an empty list is a no-op.

RECOGNISED CONSTRUCTS

5.010

recursive-sort

"Recursive sort subs" in perl5100delta.

//

"Defined-or_operator" in perl5100delta or "Logical Defined-Or" in perlop.

?PARNO

"Recursive Patterns" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "(?PARNO) (?-PARNO) (?+PARNO) (?R) (?0)" in perlre.

?<>

"Named Capture Buffers" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "(?<NAME>pattern)" in perlre.

?|

Not mentioned in any Delta. See "(?|pattern)" in perlre.

quant+

"Possessive Quantifiers" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "Quantifiers" in perlre.

regex-verbs

"Backtracking control verbs" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "Special Backtracking Control Verbs" in perlre.

\K

"\K escape" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "Look Around Assertions" in perlre.

\R

"Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "Misc" in perlrebackslash.

\gN

"Relative backreferences" under "Regular expressions" in perl5100delta or "Capture groups" in perlre.

readline()

"Default argument for readline()" in perl5100delta.

stack-file-test

"Stacked filetest operators" in perl5100delta.

/p

/p (preserve) modifier and ${^PREMATCH}, ${^MATCH} and ${^POSTMATCH} variables. Not mentioned in any Delta. See "Variables related to regular expressions" in perlvar.

5.012

package-version

"New package NAME VERSION syntax" in perl5120delta

...

"The ... operator" in perl5120delta or "The Ellipsis Statement" in perlsyn

each-array

"each, keys, values are now more flexible" in perl5120delta

keys-array

"each, keys, values are now more flexible" in perl5120delta

values-array

"each, keys, values are now more flexible" in perl5120delta

delete-local

"delete local" in perl5120delta

length-undef

See the ninth bullet in "Other potentially incompatible changes" in perl5120delta.

\N

"\N experimental regex escape" in perl5120delta.

5.014

?^

"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta.

/r

"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta and "Modifiers" in perlre.

/d

"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta and "Modifiers" in perlre.

/l

"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta and "Modifiers" in perlre.

/u

"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta and "Modifiers" in perlre.

/a

"Regular Expressions" in perl5140delta and "Modifiers" in perlre.

auto-deref

"Array and hash container functions accept references" in perl5140delta. See also "push" in perlfunc, "pop" in perlfunc, "shift" in perlfunc, "unshift" in perlfunc, "splice" in perlfunc, "keys" in perlfunc, "values" in perlfunc, and "each" in perlfunc.

^GLOBAL_PHASE

"New-global-variable-%24%7b%5eGLOBAL_PHASE%7d" in perl5140delta.

5.016

No non-feature constructs were introduced in this version of Perl.

5.018

computed-labels

"Computed Labels" in perl5180delta

our-sub

"Lexical subroutines" in perl5180delta

state-sub

"Lexical subroutines" in perl5180delta

AUTHOR

E. Choroba, <choroba at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-syntax-construct at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Syntax-Construct. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

You can also use GitHub, see below.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Syntax::Construct

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2013 - 2014 E. Choroba.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

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