Revision history for constant

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 CANPCS 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).

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