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diff --git a/README b/README index 6e5b73067..197cfb91d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ details, see the documentation. Incompatibilities between 5.2 and 5.3 ------------------------------------- -In character classes delimited by "[" and "]" within patterns, whether +1) In character classes delimited by "[" and "]" within patterns, whether used for filename generation (globbing) or other forms of pattern matching, it used not to be possible to quote "-" when used for a range, or "^" and "!" when used for negating a character set. The characters can @@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ The "~" causes the "-" character to be active. In sh emulation the "~" is unncessary in this example and double quotes must be used to suppress the range behaviour of the "-". +2) The first argument to 'repeat' is now evaluated as an arithmetic +expression. It was always documented to be an arithmetic expression, but +until now the decimal integer at the start of the value was used and the +remainder of the value discarded. + Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.2 --------------------------------------- |