5.10.0 seems to break package

[lembark]

Nothing in perldelta describes this difference; can't find any ref's via google or search on 5.10/mulitple/package.

Oddity: with use v5.10.0 (in any of the stringy versions), a second package delivers a syntax error. For example, the code below fails with:

syntax error at hak.pm line 6, near "package bar"

Adding semi-colons after the sub's allows the code to compile, but I don't remember seeing anything about semicolons being required after sub def's -- even ones before package declarations.

Or is there something else in the perldelta that I've missed?

use v5.10.0;

package foo;
foo {}

package foo::bar;
bar {}

1

__END_

so much for my editing skills -- sorry for wasting your time -- the original was frying itself with the subs in place.

[Joost]

foo {} is a CALL to a function named foo, passing a hashref - not a function declaration. You need a semi-colon after a function call. update: well, most of the time - not at the end of a file or block, for example, but you do need one before starting a new package.

You probably meant something like:

package foo;
sub foo {}

package foo::bar;
sub bar {}

Note the subs.

[ikegami]

Contrary to your implications, the missing "sub" tokens or semicolons (";") are also errors without the use line and in versions earlier than 5.10.