This is 0.36

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 1299cbfa1fe34a35397c7867d1ca209272831760..ebd2f0e127454cc6400635c9c91074efab3c44fb 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 Revision history for Variable-Magic
 
+0.36    2009-07-05 16:30 UTC
+        + Chg : getdata() now returns an empty list when no magic is present.
+                It used to return undef but did not croak as stated in the doc.
+                Thanks Matt S. Trout for pointing this out.
+        + Fix : Building and tests with ActiveState Perl 5.8 build >= 822.
+
 0.35    2009-05-15 20:50 UTC
         This is a maintenance release. Users of 0.34 can skip this update.
         + Chg : uvar magic used to be enabled for 5.9.5. It now requires 5.10 or

diff --git a/META.yml b/META.yml
index 7d10dbd787ca856bd2b5800387cff5a03df494c1..529f3a53e32dbdd1d18bc0134353b143bf36ea19 100644 (file)
--- a/META.yml
+++ b/META.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- #YAML:1.0
 name:               Variable-Magic
-version:            0.35
+version:            0.36
 abstract:           Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
 author:
     - Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com>
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ no_index:
     directory:
         - t
         - inc
-generated_by:       ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.50
+generated_by:       ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.52
 meta-spec:
     url:      http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html
     version:  1.4

diff --git a/README b/README
index 66072405829000ba0ee9d84b114015f4d9de0de0..b97a65bb23c40e600016de829eac52213543e1a8 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NAME
     Variable::Magic - Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
 
 VERSION
-    Version 0.35
+    Version 0.36
 
 SYNOPSIS
         use Variable::Magic qw/wizard cast VMG_OP_INFO_NAME/;
@@ -341,9 +341,9 @@ FUNCTIONS
 
     This accessor fetches the private data associated with the magic $wiz
     (or the signature $sig) in the variable. It croaks when $wiz or $sig do
-    not represent a current valid magic object attached to the variable, and
-    returns "undef" when the wizard has no data constructor or when the data
-    is actually "undef".
+    not represent a valid magic object, and returns an empty list if no such
+    magic is attached to the variable or when the wizard has no data
+    constructor.
 
         # Get the attached data, or undef if the wizard does not attach any.
         my $data = getdata $x, $wiz;

diff --git a/lib/Variable/Magic.pm b/lib/Variable/Magic.pm
index 2ca401216f653532cfaea63c7f7ffd7ebff0f5b7..756eca976868801c4ded1f1f3935d0ec00a467f6 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Variable/Magic.pm
+++ b/lib/Variable/Magic.pm
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ Variable::Magic - Associate user-defined magic to variables from Perl.
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-Version 0.35
+Version 0.36
 
 =cut
 
 our $VERSION;
 BEGIN {
- $VERSION = '0.35';
+ $VERSION = '0.36';
 }
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS