Get rid of ENTERn/LEAVEn

[perl/modules/Lexical-Types.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NAME
     Lexical::Types - Extend the semantics of typed lexicals.
 
 VERSION
-    Version 0.06
+    Version 0.09
 
 SYNOPSIS
         { package Str; }
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ INTEGRATION
 
 CONSTANTS
   "LT_THREADSAFE"
-    True iff the module could have been built when thread-safety features.
+    True iff the module could have been built with thread-safety features
+    enabled.
 
 CAVEATS
     The restrictions on the type (being either a defined package name or a
@@ -184,6 +185,15 @@ CAVEATS
     Only one mangler or prefix can be in use at the same time in a given
     scope.
 
+    The implementation was tweaked to work around several limitations of
+    vanilla "perl" pragmas : it's thread safe, and doesn't suffer from a
+    "perl 5.8.x-5.10.0" bug that causes all pragmas to propagate into
+    "require"d scopes.
+
+    With 5.8 perls, the pragma does not propagate into "eval STRING". This
+    is due to a shortcoming in the way perl handles the hints hash, which is
+    addressed in perl 5.10.
+
 DEPENDENCIES
     perl 5.8, XSLoader.
 
@@ -218,7 +228,7 @@ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
     Thanks Florian Ragwitz for suggesting the use of constants for types.
 
 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
-    Copyright 2009 Vincent Pit, all rights reserved.
+    Copyright 2009,2010 Vincent Pit, all rights reserved.
 
     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
     under the same terms as Perl itself.