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=head1 NAME
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HISTORY - public release history for Data::Dumper
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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=over 8
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=item 2.09 (9 July 1998)
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Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>.
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=item 2.081 (15 January 1998)
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Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
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=item 2.08 (7 December 1997)
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Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
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Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with
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overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
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require 5.004.
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A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
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Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
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Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
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=item 2.07 (7 December 1996)
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Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump. It still doesn't
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honor C<Useqq> though.
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Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
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Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
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Other small enhancements.
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=item 2.06 (2 December 1996)
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Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
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MLDBM. Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
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that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
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=item 2.05 (2 December 1996)
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Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
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on 64-bit platforms.
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GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
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*GLOB{THING} syntax).
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The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
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before probing objects for dumping. Some applications: objects with
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external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
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Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
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additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
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The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
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the method call that will revive the frozen object.
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The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
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Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
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within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood
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<norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem.
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Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
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properly by the C<Dump> method.
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Significant additions to the testsuite.
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More documentation.
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=item 2.04beta (28 August 1996)
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Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting.
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[@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes.
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=item 2.03beta (26 August 1996)
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Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames.
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(reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).
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Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly
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resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes
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<curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).
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New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix
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introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when
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absolutely essential.
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The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version
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yet).
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Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.
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Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should
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make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although
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I haven't been able to test this).
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All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list
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context.
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=item 2.02beta (13 April 1996)
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Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to
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Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).
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=item 2.01beta (10 April 1996)
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Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).
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=item 2.00beta (9 April 1996)
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C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>. The XS version
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is 4-5 times faster.
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C<require 5.002>.
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MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN
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reality now).
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Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be
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tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The
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fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes
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around hash keys.
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Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals
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is busted. His patch added.
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Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.
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=item 1.23 (3 Dec 1995)
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MLDBM example added.
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Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes
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in strings is missing. Added.
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Ian Phillips <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose
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precision without quotes. Fixed.
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=item 1.21 (20 Nov 1995)
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Last stable version I can remember.
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=back
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=cut
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