Revision history for Perl extension Getopt::Declare.

1.03 Thu Apr 30 19:51:27 1998

• first semi-public release

1.04 Wed Jun 17 14:37:22 1998

• Extended -AWK grammar to recognize <var>=''
• Fixed code generator so that actions actually do execute in the caller's package, as documented.
• Changed 1st arg type of finish and reject to simple scalar. Made arg optional (omitted -> true)
• Fixed handling of defer, reject and finish so that they work as expected

1.05 Thu Aug 27 16:35:26 1998

• Added code to reset $VAL each time a parameter matches
• Added a test.pl

1.06 Mon Nov 2 06:21:38 1998

• Made detection of strictness more robust (in line with change (bug?) in list construction behaviour in 5.005_02)
• Added workarounds for weird behaviour of pod2man

1.07 Tue Mar 23 16:25:20 1999

• Changed behaviour of [ditto] when ditto'ing multiline descriptions (now prints: "Same as <prevflag>" instead)
• Fixed bug in handling of version flag (which made every argument beginning with -v... into a version flag)
• Shifted all internal entries of the Getopt::Declare hash into an anonymous hash in the entry "_internal".
• Patched the Makefile.PL to note dependencies (thanks Roland)
• Altered parsing of [strict] so that it's ignored when commented out.

1.08 Fri May 21 06:17:04 1999

• Now only generates .CODE file if $::Declare_debug is true
• Added Text::Balanced as PREREQ to Makefile.PL
• Moved mutex test earlier in parameter parsing to correct an error that caused mutexing to be ignored (thanks Eric)
• Fixed hanging when last line was non-NL-terminated (thanks David)

1.09 Fri Sep 14 16:35:08 2001

• Fixed bug with reject and finish -- was incorrectly rejecting :of on non-existent files (thanks Andrew and Deneb).
• Added used() and unused() method to retrieve used and unused args (thanks Phil)
• Consolidated POD with .pm file
• Fixed bug where args with value 0 were ignored (thanks Dave)
• Fixed overriding of version flags (thanks everyone)
• Cleaned up acceptance tests on typed params. No longer complain if value omitted (thanks Duncan)
• Improved error messages when an arg is rejected (thanks Duncan)

1.10 Sun Feb 1 23:41:30 2004

• Documented the gotcha of using tabs within a parameter specification (thanks Dave)
• Fixed subtle bug with multi-argument parameters (thanks Tim)
• Documented built-in :id and :qs parameter variable types (thanks Tim)
• Allowed directives to take whitespace between opening [ and keyword
• Fixed bug with /.../ patterns within [pvtype:...] directives (Thanks Tim)
• Documented need to avoid capturing parens in [pvtype:...] directives (Thanks Tim)
• Added \G to -v flag checker to solve nasty problem with embedded args containing -v
• Added ability to specify interface directly in use statement
• Changed matching of initial flags so that -p[rompt] and -p[rompt]2 are seen as distinct
• Fixed doc nits (thanks Steven and Paul)
• Added AUTOLOAD to delegate embedded sub calls back to main

1.11 Tue Feb 3 20:44:26 2004

• Fixed bug in multi-argument parameters

1.12 Tue Sep 2 14:15:01 2009

• Fixed bug #18084: Misparsing of numbers in exponential notation.
• Fixed bug in which only the first part of an number (:i or :n) needed to be a number (e.g. '123asdf' was parsed as '123').
• Fixed bug #41043: Misparsing of lists of files (:if or :of).
• Fixed bug causing misparsing of lists of quoted strings (:qs).
• Added emphasis in the documentation on the need for tabs in the specification

1.13 Sun Mar 28 16:35:18 2010

• Fixed the support for IO::Pager
• Improved unit testing with Test::More

1.14 Tue Mar 09 2011

• Fixed bug #66220 (reported by Dominic Hargreaves): now using ref() instead of the deprecated function UNIVERSAL::isa()
• Fixed bug #65510 (reported by Suresh Govindachar): optional whitespaces in arguments specifications like '-e <f:i> .. <t:i>' are optional again
• Fixed infinite loop occurring with very particular command-line specs
• Updated demo scripts
• Misc maintenance of the POD, unit tests and main code