Changes for version 1.22 - 2026-11-15
- Added t/fuzz.t, t/all-fuzz.t and t/conf/NameCase-list.yml (fuzz testing, extended tests only); t/NameCase-list.t runs the hand-written schema under make test Fix: Makefile.PL declares List::Util and all test prerequisites and now generates META files Added t/transition.t (state diagram); the STATE DIAGRAM now shows the too_long edge and that $MAX_LENGTH is part of the configuration Added the Test Dashboard Added t/transaction.t (lifecycle, rollback, idempotency, concurrency) Added t/path.t (every execution path); marked the unreachable die after croak in _fail Added t/domain.t (equivalence partitions and boundary values) and documented the valid and invalid input domains in the API SPECIFICATION Use gtar to create a distribution on Macs Use Test::DescribeMe to simplify tests Use Test::Needs Refactored into small private routines (Sub::Private, enforce mode) Table-driven Mac exceptions, particles and post-nominals: about 10x faster Fix: post-nominal entries "MCh.", "FCSP." and "FSCR." matched any character for the dot, so "MCHX" became "MCh." Fix: nc() with no argument no longer modifies a reference in $_ NameCase(\@array) in place now returns the array reference Error messages are templates, overridable via %MESSAGES; they name the offending argument type Fix: Windows/C-locale failures: removed "use locale", which warned about wide characters and mis-cased accented Latin-1 names outside UTF-8 locales New $MAX_LENGTH switch and too_long message to refuse oversize names Fix: nc() read a tied argument twice (check/use gap); now once Fix: error messages no longer echo raw class names (log injection); an empty message text or a reference as text no longer breaks croak Fix: no warnings for lone surrogates or non-Unicode code points Added t/edge_cases.t and t/data-flow.t Fix: a post-nominal found only through case folding (long s, "fi" ligature) had its text deleted, with an uninitialized-value warning Fix: NameCase(\@array) no longer breaks aliases: the elements are written in place again (NameCase(\@_) changes the caller's variables), still all-or-nothing Security audit: new SECURITY section; author tests no longer build code with string eval from META data; taint and growth tests Fix: the Mac test let a following space or punctuation stand in for the last letter, so Polish/Italian names such as Macchiato were cased as Mac names when another word followed them Regex audit: possessive quantifiers, one-letter capture, post-nominal check now copies only the end of the name Fix: declare IPC::System::Simple, which "use autodie qw(:all)" needs Faster: roman numerals 4x, particles 2x, whole nc() about 1.6x; post-nominal matching no longer scans every word boundary of a long name NameCase(\@array) is now all-or-nothing: a bad element leaves it unchanged Added t/integration.t, t/unit.t, t/function.t, t/messages.t and t/locales.t; documented LIMITATIONS Now requires Readonly and Perl 5.10. Sub::Private is optional (it needs Perl 5.26 via Params::Validate::Strict): the internals are locked only if it is installed. Fixes install failures on old Perls
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Correctly case a person's name from UPPERCASE or lowercase