Revision history for constant 1.27 2013.03.21 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) [CODE] Updated from bleadperl: - Remove a reference to a non-existent module (Karl Williamson) - Make utf8 downgrading version dependent in order to avoid unconditional loading of utf8_heavy.pl (Brad Gilbert) 1.25 2013.01.19 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) [CODE] Updated from bleadperl: - Remove 5.6-isms (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) 1.24 2013.01.07 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) [CODE] Updated from bleadperl: - Disable the UTF8 downgrade when unnecessary (Father Chrysostomos) - Restore compatibility with Perl 5.8 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) - Skip t/utf8.t on Perl before 5.8.4 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) [DIST] Perl-RT #114050: Added meta-information in Makefile.PL to reflect that the module is maintained by P5P. 1.21 2011.04.18 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) #PerlQA2011 [CODE] Updated from bleadperl: - Make Unicode constants under use utf8 work again (Father Chrysostomos) [TESTS] Make tests pass under old Perls. 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). Full history: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/l/lib/constant.pm