Revision history for Perl extension Class::Multimethods.

0.01 Tue Oct 27 13:33:29 1998

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18

1.00 Wed Feb 17 09:28:29 1999

• Now supports '#', '$', and '*' pseudo-types in parameter lists

1.10 Fri Feb 19 11:55:37 1999

• Fixed a nasty bug in the import method (thanks Larry)
• Added constraints to indicate that the module doesn't run on Perls earlier than 5.005
• Added &resolve_ambiguous to allow handlers to be registered for multimethod calls which could be equally well be disptched to two or more variants
• Added &resolve_no_match to allow handlers to be registered for multimethod calls which cannot be dispatched to any variant.
• Documented the syntactic vinegar needed to run under 'use strict'

1.12 Tue Jul 6 17:09:04 1999

• Removed subroutine call in generated multimethod dispatcher, made dispatch table a package var, and optimized most common cases. Produced a 38% improvement in raw dispatch speed (around 22% faster dispatch in real applications).
• Added &analyse subroutine to assist debugging
• Moved test.pl to t/multimethods.t (thanks Lupe)
• Added superclass method (thanks Gareth)

1.69 Sun Sep 12 07:29:06 1999

• Fixed absolute path snafu in MANIFEST (thanks Gareth and Michael)
• moved demos to demo subdirectory

1.70 Sun Apr 9 12:43:55 2000

• moved .pod file to installable directory (/lib)
• Added TPC3 paper as tutorial.html (thanks Tom)