= 1998/11/29
Combined Fill.pm into Wrap.pm. It appears there are versions of
Wrap.pm with fill in them.
= 1998/11/28
Over the last couple of years, many people sent in various
rewrites of Text::Wrap. I should have done something about
updating it long ago. If someone wants to take it over from
me, discuss it in perl-porters. I'll be happy to hand it
over.
Anyway, I have a bunch of people to thank. I didn't
use what any of them sent in, but I did take ideas from
all of them. Many sent in complete new implamentations.
Ivan Brawley <ibrawley@awadi.com.au>
Jacqui Caren <Jacqui.Caren@ig.co.uk>
Jeff Kowalski <jeff.kowalski@autodesk.com>
Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
Sullivan N. Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>
The end result is a very slight change in the API. There
is now an additional package variable: $Text::Wrap::huge.
When $huge is set to 'die' then long words will cause
wrap() to die. When it is set to 'wrap', long words will
be wrapped. The default is 'wrap'.
<shout>LONG WORDS WILL NOW BE WRAPPED BY DEFAULT</shout>.
This is a change in behavior.
At the bottom of Text::Wrap, there was a function (fill())
sitting there unpublished. There was a note that Tim Pierce
had a faster version, but a search on CPAN failed to turn it
up. Text::Fill is now available.