Changes for version 9.018

  • Docs:
  • new documentation file "README-howto-release.md"
  • Java:
  • API to extend Java classes using Perl: new keywords "implements", "throws"
  • native "undef" is "null"
  • regex character class fixup - avoid double escape
  • hex(),crypt(),rindex() by Bas Appelo
  • oct() by Imran Mohammad
  • delete, exists fixes for non hash context
  • chomp() and chop() converted from JS to Java
  • Java example: new socket based client server game using Perl, by Imran Mohammad misc/Java/GameClient.pl, misc/Java/GameServer.pl
  • read/write argument list - $_[0]++

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