News for Perl

Updates:

• Formatter
  • New formatting options available
    • Wrapping and Alignment
      • subs and methods signatures
      • variable declarations lists
      • subs and variables attributes, #1684
      • ternary expression
      • qw lists
      • call arguments
      • binary expressions, #1680
      • assignments
      • chained dereference, #1681
      • comma-separated lists, #1677
      • comments, #1676
    • spacing for signatures, attributes and subs prototypes
  • Formatting for anon subs, hashes, arrays and lists is much better now, by @aptituz
  • qw list is now formatted like a block, meaning quotes being formatted same way as braces, #1678
• Debugger (requires Devel::Camelcadedb v2017.100.3+)
  • You may now inspect IO layers
  • You may now see the tied information in variables section
• Smart keys
  • Typing colon after a package automatically inserting a second one and opening completion popup, configurable, #1732
  • Typing space after a key inside comma sequence with fat commas now adds a fat comma and re-format the sequence, configurable, #1736
• Interface
  • Re-generate XSubs declaration action removed from Perl5 settings. It's now available in Tools -> Perl5 menu and via Run Action... (Ctrl+Shift+A)
  • Re-format with Perl::Tidy and Deparse file... actions also moved to the Tools -> Perl5 menu.
• Data::Printer exports should work fine now, #1698
• cpanfile is now recognized as a perl file. To make resolve and completion work, you should have carton installed, by @Nowaker

Fixes:

• Perl interpreters manipulation now has minimalistic UI, should help with buttons unavailability, by @alexqfredrickson
• Missing completion of variables declared in anon sub signature, by @elcamlost
• False variables resolve from statement to anon sub signature, by @elcamlost
• Variables resolve to signatures in anon subs or subs nested in statements, by @elcamlost
• Parsing of hash variable after omitted argument in perl signature, by @elcamlost
• New line won't be inserted before fat comma on wrapping
• Formatter now removes spaces after \ operator
• Moving opening brace to the comment after compound statement beginning, #1578
• Parsing $1x as variable name and x operator, #1667
• Resolve from methods declared with method keyword in certain frameworks, #1669
• Additional formatting cases
• False unresolved sub warning in Exporter array in case of multiple targets available, #1726
• Dialog rename for accessors now suggests proper name, #1719
• False unresolved namespace warning in no statements, #1733