Subject: ANNOUNCE: Data::Locations 5.0
From: Steffen Beyer <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 May 1999 15:24:05 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

I am glad to announce version 5.0 of my module "Data::Locations":

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                    Package "Data::Locations" Version 5.0
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This package is available for download either from my web site at

                  http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/

or from any CPAN (= "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network") mirror server:

                  http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/STBEY/

Prerequisites:
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Perl version 5.004 (subversion 0) or higher.

What's new in version 5.0:
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 +  All global or "class" methods (except "Data::Locations->new()",
    of course) are gone. This allows several modules to use this
    module simultaneously without interfering with each other.
 +  All locations are local ("my" or "lexically scoped") variables
    now in the sense that they are automatically destroyed (and