Karl Williamson

Devel::PPPort 3.55 has more than two hundred commits since the last major releases. The documentation has been extensively revised to make it clearer how to use, and to contribute. And it has been updated to know about the latest blead; the first such update in 5 or more years.

Dozens of functions and macros are newly implemented. The suite of SV handling functions is more complete, with more flags handled. Also the character classification macros (alpha, punct, etc) and case changing functions are greatly expanded. There is more Unicode support, including modern security standards.

ppport.h --api-info foo

is much more complete than before. If you make 'foo' to instead be '/./' you'll get information about every known API element.

And it still supports 5.003, with a surprising number of elements functioning that far back.

The full documentation is available at .

The version backporting is valid for is unknown for quite a few API elements. That is because documentation is lacking on the parameters these take, and so the automatic tests for these elements can't be generated. If you know what some of the missing things do, we would greatly appreciate your contributing documentation for them. in the form of a github pull request.