Revision history for Perl extension Want.

0.01 Sun Jul 1 18:04:58 2001

• original version; created by h2xs 1.1.1.4 with options

  -A Want

• Published to CPAN on 2001-07-15

0.02 Mon Jul 16 10:06:15 2001

• Give correct expectation count for constructs like

  my ($x, $y, $z) = (23, foo()); # foo's expectation count is 2

• want(2) should be true in C<@x = foo()> etc; i.e. infinity > N for any finite N :-)
• Support '!' negative requests
• correct expectation count for slices

0.03 Wed Jul 25 12:03:01 BST 2001

• Fix documentation snafus
• add want('COUNT') as a synonym for C<howmany> and want('REF') for C<wantref>
• BOOLEAN context
• now compiles & passes tests under ithreads
• SCALARREF and OBJECT reference contexts (want('REF') eq 'SCALAR' || want('REF') eq 'OBJECT')
• Reorganised test suite

0.04 Sat Aug 4 09:44:34 BST 2001

• 'want' is now exported by default
• BOOL is a euphemism for BOOLEAN (Perl 6 compatibility)
• ARGUMENTS section added to documentation
• excised C++-style comments from the source
• fixed the expectation count issue from the BUGS section of 0.03
• ASSIGN context. Yeah, baby!
• don't throw an error if RVALUE/LVALUE are used from a non-lvalue sub
• specifiers can also now be space-separated, e.g.:

  want('LVALUE ASSIGN');

0.05 Tue Aug 28 22:14:48 BST 2001

• tests pass on 5.6.1 and above
• added 'rreturn' and 'lnoreturn' functions

0.06 Fri Jul 25 11:42:13 BST 2003

• pass thread context to Perl_pop_return
• remove v-string

0.07 Mon Aug 18 10:27:27 BST 2003

• do not try to call pop_return (it's private)
• update copyright year(s) and fix doc glitches
• remove spurious || $n eq 'gelem' from _wantref
• change i to I32 (rather than U32) to avoid compiler warning on Win32

0.08 Mon Dec 13 01:23:28 GMT 2004

• Accommodate the changed internals of perl 5.9.2 (the retstack is no more: see change #23156).

0.09 Thu Jun 30 15:02:37 BST 2005

• Fix a bug reported by Damian: want doesn't work (crashes) if it's called from within the guard of a loop. See the comment above upcontext_plus in Want.xs.
• Runs under the debugger!
• Give an error message (rather than segfaulting) if called from a tie handler.

0.10 Sat Mar 25 15:00:41 GMT 2006

• Make context propagate through subroutine return
• Fix bug whereby want('LVALUE') sometimes gave false positives (see test 58 in t/all.t)
• Fix bug whereby want_boolean often gave false positives

0.11 Sat Aug 26 22:36:27 BST 2006

• (Jerry D. Hedden) Fix bug whereby 'lnoreturn' failed to decrement the CvDEPTH, which causes an error with 'use threads'

0.12 Tue Aug 29 21:06:40 BST 2006

• (Jerry D. Hedden) Force the threads test to be skipped if oldstyle threads (as opposed to ithreads) are in use.

0.13 Tue May 1 21:39:19 BST 2007

• Address bug #26847, and add t/methcall.t

0.14 Fri May 4 12:00:20 BST 2007

• Fix bug #26928

0.15 Sun Jul 15 14:39:15 BST 2007

• Fix compiler warning (#26961) -- from Jerry D. Hedden
• Fix memory leak in want_assign (#28224)

0.16 Thu Dec 6 11:15:39 GMT 2007

• Make sure there are no ._ files in the tarball
• Refuse to run Makefile.PL with Perl < 5.006

0.17 Sun Feb 3 22:30:30 GMT 2008

• Be compatible with internals changes post-5.10 (new loop contexts & CxLVAL)

0.18 Mon Feb 4 09:35:56 GMT 2008

• Code identical to 0.17; eliminate ._files by using gnutar.