1Perltidy Change Log
2  2012 12 07
3     - The flag -cab=n or --comma-arrow-breakpoints=n has been generalized
4       to give better control over breaking open short containers.  The
5       possible values are now:
6
7         n=0 break at all commas after =>  
8         n=1 stable: break at all commas after => if container is open,
9             EXCEPT FOR one-line containers
10         n=2 break at all commas after =>, BUT try to form the maximum
11             maximum one-line container lengths
12         n=3 do not treat commas after => specially at all 
13         n=4 break everything: like n=0 but also break a short container with
14             a => not followed by a comma
15         n=5 stable: like n=1 but ALSO break at open one-line containers (default)
16
17       New values n=4 and n=5 have been added to allow short blocks to be
18       broken open.  The new default is n=5, stable.  It should more closely
19       follow the breaks in the input file, and previously formatted code
20       should remain unchanged.  If this causes problems use -cab=1 to recover 
21       the former behavior.  Thanks to Tony Maszeroski for the suggestion.
22
23       To illustrate the need for the new options, if perltidy is given
24       the following code, then the old default (-cab=1) was to close up 
25       the 'index' container even if it was open in the source.  The new 
26       default (-cab=5) will keep it open if it was open in the source.
27
28        our $fancypkg = {
29            'ALL' => {
30                'index' => {
31                    'key' => 'value',
32                },
33                'alpine' => {
34                    'one'   => '+',
35                    'two'   => '+',
36                    'three' => '+',
37                },
38            }
39        };
40
41     - New debug flag --memoize (-mem).  This version contains a 
42       patch supplied by Jonathan Swartz which can significantly speed up
43       repeated calls to Perl::Tidy::perltidy in a single process by caching
44       the result of parsing the formatting parameters.  A factor of up to 10
45       speedup was achieved for masontidy (https://metacpan.org/module/masontidy).
46       The memoization patch is on by default but can be deactivated for 
47       testing with -nmem (or --no-memoize).
48
49     - New flag -tso (--tight-secret-operators) causes certain perl operator
50       sequences (secret operators) to be formatted "tightly" (without spaces).  
51       The most common of these are 0 +  and + 0 which become 0+ and +0.  The
52       operators currently modified by this flag are: 
53            =( )=  0+  +0  ()x!! ~~<>  ,=>
54       Suggested by by Philippe Bruhat. See https://metacpan.org/module/perlsecret
55       This flag is off by default.
56   
57     - New flag -vmll (--variable-maximum-line-length) makes the maximum
58       line length increase with the nesting depth of a line of code.  
59       Basically, it causes the length of leading whitespace to be ignored when
60       setting line breaks, so the formatting of a block of code is independent
61       of its nesting depth.  Try this option if you have deeply nested 
62       code or data structures, perhaps in conjunction with the -wc flag
63       described next.  The default is not todo this.
64 
65     - New flag -wc=n (--whitespace-cycle=n) also addresses problems with
66       very deeply nested code and data structures.  When this parameter is
67       used and the nesting depth exceeds the value n, the leading whitespace 
68       will be reduced and start at 1 again.  The result is that deeply
69       nested blocks of code will shift back to the left. This occurs cyclically 
70       to any nesting depth.  This flag may be used either with or without -vmll.
71       The default is not to use this (-wc=0).
72
73     - Fixed RT #78764, error parsing smartmatch operator followed by anonymous
74       hash or array and then a ternary operator; two examples:
75
76        qr/3/ ~~ ['1234'] ? 1 : 0;
77        map { $_ ~~ [ '0', '1' ] ? 'x' : 'o' } @a;
78
79     - Fixed problem with specifying spaces around arrows using -wls='->'
80       and -wrs='->'.  Thanks to Alain Valleton for documenting this problem. 
81
82     - Implemented RT #53183, wishlist, lines of code with the same indentation
83       level which are contained with multiple stacked opening and closing tokens
84       (requested with flags -sot -sct) now have reduced indentation.  
85
86        # Default
87        $sender->MailMsg(
88            {
89                to      => $addr,
90                subject => $subject,
91                msg     => $body
92            }
93        );
94
95        # OLD: perltidy -sot -sct 
96        $sender->MailMsg( {
97                to      => $addr,
98                subject => $subject,
99                msg     => $body
100        } );
101
102        # NEW: perltidy -sot -sct 
103        $sender->MailMsg( {
104            to      => $addr,
105            subject => $subject,
106            msg     => $body
107        } );
108
109     - New flag -act=n (--all-containers-tightness=n) is an abbreviation for
110       -pt=n -sbt=n -bt=n -bbt=n, where n=0,1, or 2.  It simplifies input when all
111       containers have the same tightness. Using the same example:
112
113        # NEW: perltidy -sot -sct -act=2
114        $sender->MailMsg({
115            to      => $addr,
116            subject => $subject,
117            msg     => $body
118        });
119
120     - New flag -sac (--stack-all-containers) is an abbreviation for -sot -sct
121       This is part of wishlist item RT #53183. Using the same example again:
122
123        # NEW: perltidy -sac -act=2
124        $sender->MailMsg({
125            to      => $addr,
126            subject => $subject,
127            msg     => $body
128        });
129
130      - new flag -scbb (--stack-closing-block-brace) causes isolated closing 
131        block braces to stack as in the following example. (Wishlist item RT#73788)
132
133        DEFAULT:
134        for $w1 (@w1) {
135            for $w2 (@w2) {
136                for $w3 (@w3) {
137                    for $w4 (@w4) {
138                        push( @lines, "$w1 $w2 $w3 $w4\n" );
139                    }
140                }
141            }
142        }
143
144        perltidy -scbb:
145        for $w1 (@w1) {
146            for $w2 (@w2) {
147                for $w3 (@w3) {
148                    for $w4 (@w4) {
149                        push( @lines, "$w1 $w2 $w3 $w4\n" );
150                    } } } }
151
152       There is, at present, no flag to place these closing braces at the end
153       of the previous line. It seems difficult to develop good rules for 
154       doing this for a wide variety of code and data structures.
155
156     - Parameters defining block types may use a wildcard '*' to indicate
157       all block types.  Previously it was not possible to include bare blocks.
158 
159     - A flag -sobb (--stack-opening-block-brace) has been introduced as an
160       alias for -bbvt=2 -bbvtl='*'.  So for example the following test code:
161
162       {{{{{{{ $testing }}}}}}}
163
164       cannot be formatted as above but can at least be kept vertically compact 
165       using perltidy -sobb -scbb
166
167       {   {   {   {   {   {   {   $testing
168                               } } } } } } }
169
170       Or even, perltidy -sobb -scbb -i=1 -bbt=2
171       {{{{{{{$testing
172             }}}}}}}
173
174
175     - Error message improved for conflicts due to -pbp; thanks to Djun Kim.
176  
177     - Fixed RT #80645, error parsing special array name '@$' when used as 
178       @{$} or $#{$}
179 
180     - Eliminated the -chk debug flag which was included in version 20010406 to
181       do a one-time check for a bug with multi-line quotes.  It has not been
182       needed since then.
183
184     - Numerous other minor formatting improvements.
185
186  2012 07 14
187     - Added flag -iscl (--ignore-side-comment-lengths) which causes perltidy 
188       to ignore the length of side comments when setting line breaks, 
189       RT #71848.  The default is to include the length of side comments when
190       breaking lines to stay within the length prescribed by the -l=n
191       maximum line length parameter.  For example,
192
193         Default behavior on a single line with long side comment:
194            $vmsfile =~ s/;[\d\-]*$//
195              ;    # Clip off version number; we can use a newer version as well
196   
197         perltidy -iscl leaves the line intact:
198
199            $vmsfile =~ s/;[\d\-]*$//; # Clip off version number; we can use a newer version as well
200
201     - Fixed RT #78182, side effects with STDERR.  Error handling has been
202       revised and the documentation has been updated.  STDERR can now be 
203       redirected to a string reference, and perltidy now returns an 
204       error flag instead of calling die when input errors are detected. 
205       If the error flag is set then no tidied output was produced.
206       See man Perl::Tidy for an example.
207
208     - Fixed RT #78156, erroneous warning message for package VERSION syntax.
209
210     - Added abbreviations -conv (--converge) to simplify iteration control.
211       -conv is equivalent to -it=4 and will insure that the tidied code is
212       converged to its final state with the minimum number of iterations.
213
214     - Minor formatting modifications have been made to insure convergence.
215
216     - Simplified and hopefully improved the method for guessing the starting 
217       indentation level of entabbed code.  Added flag -dt=n (--default_tabsize=n) 
218       which might be helpful if the guessing method does not work well for
219       some editors.
220
221     - Added support for stacked labels, upper case X/B in hex and binary, and
222       CORE:: namespace.
223
224     - Eliminated warning messages for using keyword names as constants.
225
226  2012 07 01
227     - Corrected problem introduced by using a chomp on scalar references, RT #77978
228
229     - Added support for Perl 5.14 package block syntax, RT #78114.
230
231     - A convergence test is made if three or more iterations are requested with
232       the -it=n parameter to avoid wasting computer time.  Several hundred Mb of
233       code gleaned from the internet were searched with the results that: 
234        - It is unusual for two iterations to be required unless a major 
235          style change is being made. 
236        - Only one case has been found where three iterations were required.  
237        - No cases requiring four iterations have been found with this version.
238       For the previous version several cases where found the results could
239       oscillate between two semi-stable states. This version corrects this.
240
241       So if it is important that the code be converged it is okay to set -it=4
242       with this version and it will probably stop after the second iteration.
243
244     - Improved ability to identify and retain good line break points in the
245       input stream, such as at commas and equals. You can always tell 
246       perltidy to ignore old breakpoints with -iob.  
247
248     - Fixed glitch in which a terminal closing hash brace followed by semicolon
249       was not outdented back to the leading line depth like other closing
250       tokens.  Thanks to Keith Neargarder for noting this.
251
252         OLD:
253            my ( $pre, $post ) = @{
254                {
255                    "pp_anonlist" => [ "[", "]" ],
256                    "pp_anonhash" => [ "{", "}" ]
257                }->{ $kid->ppaddr }
258              };   # terminal brace
259
260         NEW:
261            my ( $pre, $post ) = @{
262                {
263                    "pp_anonlist" => [ "[", "]" ],
264                    "pp_anonhash" => [ "{", "}" ]
265                }->{ $kid->ppaddr }
266            };    # terminal brace
267
268     - Removed extra indentation given to trailing 'if' and 'unless' clauses 
269       without parentheses because this occasionally produced undesirable 
270       results.  This only applies where parens are not used after the if or
271       unless.
272
273        OLD:
274            return undef
275              unless my ( $who, $actions ) =
276                  $clause =~ /^($who_re)((?:$action_re)+)$/o; 
277    
278        NEW:
279            return undef
280              unless my ( $who, $actions ) =
281              $clause =~ /^($who_re)((?:$action_re)+)$/o;
282
283  2012 06 19
284     - Updated perltidy to handle all quote modifiers defined for perl 5 version 16.
285
286     - Side comment text in perltidyrc configuration files must now begin with
287       at least one space before the #.  Thus:
288
289       OK:
290         -l=78 # Max line width is 78 cols
291       BAD: 
292         -l=78# Max line width is 78 cols
293
294       This is probably true of almost all existing perltidyrc files, 
295       but if you get an error message about bad parameters
296       involving a '#' the first time you run this version, please check the side
297       comments in your perltidyrc file, and add a space before the # if necessary.
298       You can quickly see the contents your perltidyrc file, if any, with the
299       command:
300
301         perltidy -dpro
302
303       The reason for this change is that some parameters naturally involve
304       the # symbol, and this can get interpreted as a side comment unless the
305       parameter is quoted.  For example, to define -sphb=# it used to be necessary
306       to write
307         -sbcp='#'
308       to keep the # from becoming part of a comment.  This was causing 
309       trouble for new users.  Now it can also be written without quotes: 
310         -sbcp=#
311
312     - Fixed bug in processing some .perltidyrc files containing parameters with
313       an opening brace character, '{'.  For example the following was
314       incorrectly processed:
315          --static-block-comment-prefix="^#{2,}[^\s#]"
316       Thanks to pdagosto.
317
318     - Added flag -boa (--break-at-old-attribute-breakpoints) which retains
319       any existing line breaks at attribute separation ':'. This is now the
320       default, use -nboa to deactivate.  Thanks to Daphne Phister for the patch.  
321       For example, given the following code, the line breaks at the ':'s will be
322       retained:
323       
324                        my @field
325                          : field
326                          : Default(1)
327                          : Get('Name' => 'foo') : Set('Name');
328
329       whereas the previous version would have output a single line.  If
330       the attributes are on a single line then they will remain on a single line.
331 
332     - Added new flags --blank-lines-before-subs=n (-blbs=n) and
333       --blank-lines-before-packages=n (-blbp=n) to put n blank lines before
334       subs and packages.  The old flag -bbs is now equivalent to -blbs=1 -blbp=1.
335       and -nbbs is equivalent to -blbs=0 -blbp=0. Requested by M. Schwern and
336       several others.
337
338     - Added feature -nsak='*' meaning no space between any keyword and opening 
339       paren.  This avoids listing entering a long list of keywords.  Requested
340       by M. Schwern.
341
342     - Added option to delete a backup of original file with in-place-modify (-b)
343       if there were no errors.  This can be requested with the flag -bext='/'.  
344       See documentation for details.  Requested by M. Schwern and others.
345
346     - Fixed bug where the module postfilter parameter was not applied when -b 
347       flag was used.  This was discovered during testing.
348
349     - Fixed in-place-modify (-b) to work with symbolic links to source files.
350       Thanks to Ted Johnson.
351
352     - Fixed bug where the Perl::Tidy module did not allow -b to be used 
353       in some cases.
354
355     - No extra blank line is added before a comment which follows
356       a short line ending in an opening token, for example like this:
357        OLD:
358                if (
359
360                    # unless we follow a blank or comment line
361                    $last_line_leading_type !~ /^[#b]$/
362                    ...
363
364        NEW:
365                if (
366                    # unless we follow a blank or comment line
367                    $last_line_leading_type !~ /^[#b]$/
368                    ...
369
370        The blank is not needed for readability in these cases because there
371        already is already space above the comment.  If a blank already 
372        exists there it will not be removed, so this change should not 
373        change code which has previously been formatted with perltidy. 
374        Thanks to R.W.Stauner.
375
376     - Likewise, no extra blank line is added above a comment consisting of a
377       single #, since nothing is gained in readability.
378
379     - Fixed error in which a blank line was removed after a #>>> directive. 
380       Thanks to Ricky Morse.
381
382     - Unnecessary semicolons after given/when/default blocks are now removed.
383
384     - Fixed bug where an unwanted blank line could be added before
385       pod text in __DATA__ or __END__ section.  Thanks to jidani.
386
387     - Changed exit flags from 1 to 0 to indicate success for -help, -version, 
388       and all -dump commands.  Also added -? as another way to dump the help.
389       Requested by Keith Neargarder.
390
391     - Fixed bug where .ERR and .LOG files were not written except for -it=2 or more
392
393     - Fixed bug where trailing blank lines at the end of a file were dropped when
394       -it>1.
395
396     - Fixed bug where a line occasionally ended with an extra space. This reduces
397       rhe number of instances where a second iteration gives a result different
398       from the first. 
399
400     - Updated documentation to note that the Tidy.pm module <stderr> parameter may
401       not be a reference to SCALAR or ARRAY; it must be a file.
402 
403     - Syntax check with perl now work when the Tidy.pm module is processing
404       references to arrays and strings.  Thanks to Charles Alderman.
405
406     - Zero-length files are no longer processed due to concerns for data loss
407       due to side effects in some scenarios.
408
409     - block labels, if any, are now included in closing side comment text
410       when the -csc flag is used.  Suggested by Aaron.  For example, 
411       the label L102 in the following block is now included in the -csc text:
412
413          L102: for my $i ( 1 .. 10 ) {
414            ...
415          } ## end L102: for my $i ( 1 .. 10 )
416
417  2010 12 17
418     - added new flag -it=n or --iterations=n
419       This flag causes perltidy to do n complete iterations.  
420       For most purposes the default of n=1 should be satisfactory.  However n=2
421       can be useful when a major style change is being made, or when code is being
422       beautified on check-in to a source code control system.  The run time will be
423       approximately proportional to n, and it should seldom be necessary to use a
424       value greater than n=2.  Thanks to Jonathan Swartz
425
426     - A configuration file pathname begins with three dots, e.g.
427       ".../.perltidyrc", indicates that the file should be searched for starting
428       in the current directory and working upwards. This makes it easier to have
429       multiple projects each with their own .perltidyrc in their root directories.
430       Thanks to Jonathan Swartz for this patch.
431
432     - Added flag --notidy which disables all formatting and causes the input to be
433       copied unchanged.  This can be useful in conjunction with hierarchical
434       F<.perltidyrc> files to prevent unwanted tidying.
435       Thanks to Jonathan Swartz for this patch.
436
437     - Added prefilters and postfilters in the call to the Tidy.pm module.
438       Prefilters and postfilters. The prefilter is a code reference that 
439       will be applied to the source before tidying, and the postfilter 
440       is a code reference to the result before outputting.  
441
442       Thanks to Jonathan Swartz for this patch.  He writes:
443       This is useful for all manner of customizations. For example, I use
444       it to convert the 'method' keyword to 'sub' so that perltidy will work for
445       Method::Signature::Simple code:
446
447       Perl::Tidy::perltidy(
448          prefilter => sub { $_ = $_[0]; s/^method (.*)/sub $1 \#__METHOD/gm; return $_ },
449          postfilter => sub { $_ = $_[0]; s/^sub (.*?)\s* \#__METHOD/method $1/gm; return $_ }
450       );
451
452     - The starting indentation level of sections of code entabbed with -et=n
453       is correctly guessed if it was also produced with the same -et=n flag.  This
454       keeps the indentation stable on repeated formatting passes within an editor.
455       Thanks to Sam Kington and Glenn.
456
457     - Functions with prototype '&' had a space between the function and opening
458       peren.  This space now only occurs if the flag --space-function-paren (-sfp)
459       is set.  Thanks to Zrajm Akfohg.
460
461     - Patch to never put spaces around a bare word in braces beginning with ^ as in:
462         my $before = ${^PREMATCH};
463       even if requested with the -bt=0 flag because any spaces cause a syntax error in perl.
464       Thanks to Fabrice Dulanoy.
465
466  2009 06 16
467     - Allow configuration file to be 'perltidy.ini' for Windows systems.
468       i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\User\perltidy.ini
469       and added documentation for setting configuation file under Windows in man
470       page.  Thanks to Stuart Clark.
471
472     - Corrected problem of unwanted semicolons in hash ref within given/when code.
473      Thanks to Nelo Onyiah.
474
475     - added new flag -cscb or --closing-side-comments-balanced
476      When using closing-side-comments, and the closing-side-comment-maximum-text
477      limit is exceeded, then the comment text must be truncated.  Previous
478      versions of perltidy terminate with three dots, and this can still be
479      achieved with -ncscb:
480   
481       perltidy -csc -ncscb
482
483       } ## end foreach my $foo (sort { $b cmp $a ...
484   
485      However this causes a problem with older editors which cannot recognize
486      comments or are not configured to doso because they cannot "bounce" around in
487      the text correctly.  The B<-cscb> flag tries to help them by 
488      appending appropriate terminal balancing structure:
489   
490       perltidy -csc -cscb
491
492       } ## end foreach my $foo (sort { $b cmp $a ... })
493   
494      Since there is much to be gained and little to be lost by doing this,
495      the default is B<-cscb>.  Use B<-ncscb> if you do not want this.
496
497      Thanks to Daniel Becker for suggesting this option.
498
499     - After an isolated closing eval block the continuation indentation will be
500       removed so that the braces line up more like other blocks.  Thanks to Yves Orton.
501
502     OLD:
503        eval {
504            #STUFF;
505            1;    # return true
506          }  
507          or do {
508            #handle error
509          };
510
511     NEW:
512        eval {
513            #STUFF;
514            1;    # return true
515        } or do {
516            #handle error
517        };
518
519     -A new flag -asbl (or --opening-anonymous-sub-brace-on-new-line) has
520      been added to put the opening brace of anonymous sub's on a new line,
521      as in the following snippet:
522
523        my $code = sub
524        {
525            my $arg = shift;
526            return $arg->(@_);
527        };
528
529      This was not possible before because the -sbl flag only applies to named
530      subs. Thanks to Benjamin Krupp.
531
532     -Fix tokenization bug with the following snippet
533       print 'hi' if { x => 1, }->{x};
534      which resulted in a semicolon being added after the comma.  The workaround
535      was to use -nasc, but this is no longer necessary.  Thanks to Brian Duggan. 
536
537     -Fixed problem in which an incorrect error message could be triggered
538     by the (unusual) combination of parameters  -lp -i=0 -l=2 -ci=0 for
539     example.  Thanks to Richard Jelinek.
540
541     -A new flag --keep-old-blank-lines=n has been added to
542     give more control over the treatment of old blank lines in
543     a script.  The manual has been revised to discuss the new
544     flag and clarify the treatment of old blank lines.  Thanks
545     to Oliver Schaefer.
546
547  2007 12 05
548     -Improved support for perl 5.10: New quote modifier 'p', new block type UNITCHECK, 
549     new keyword break, improved formatting of given/when.
550
551     -Corrected tokenization bug of something like $var{-q}.
552
553     -Numerous minor formatting improvements.
554
555     -Corrected list of operators controlled by -baao -bbao to include
556       . : ? && || and or err xor
557
558     -Corrected very minor error in log file involving incorrect comment
559     regarding need for upper case of labels.  
560
561     -Fixed problem where perltidy could run for a very long time
562     when given certain non-perl text files.
563
564     -Line breaks in un-parenthesized lists now try to follow
565     line breaks in the input file rather than trying to fill
566     lines.  This usually works better, but if this causes
567     trouble you can use -iob to ignore any old line breaks.
568     Example for the following input snippet:
569
570        print
571        "conformability (Not the same dimension)\n",
572        "\t", $have, " is ", text_unit($hu), "\n",
573        "\t", $want, " is ", text_unit($wu), "\n",
574        ;
575
576      OLD:
577        print "conformability (Not the same dimension)\n", "\t", $have, " is ",
578          text_unit($hu), "\n", "\t", $want, " is ", text_unit($wu), "\n",;
579
580      NEW:
581        print "conformability (Not the same dimension)\n",
582          "\t", $have, " is ", text_unit($hu), "\n",
583          "\t", $want, " is ", text_unit($wu), "\n",
584          ;
585
586  2007 08 01
587     -Added -fpsc option (--fixed-position-side-comment). Thanks to Ueli Hugenschmidt. 
588     For example -fpsc=40 tells perltidy to put side comments in column 40
589     if possible.  
590
591     -Added -bbao and -baao options (--break-before-all-operators and
592     --break-after-all-operators) to simplify command lines and configuration
593     files.  These define an initial preference for breaking at operators which can
594     be modified with -wba and -wbb flags.  For example to break before all operators
595     except an = one could use --bbao -wba='=' rather than listing every
596     single perl operator (except =) on a -wbb flag.
597
598     -Added -kis option (--keep-interior-semicolons).  Use the B<-kis> flag
599     to prevent breaking at a semicolon if there was no break there in the
600     input file.  To illustrate, consider the following input lines:
601
602        dbmclose(%verb_delim); undef %verb_delim;
603        dbmclose(%expanded); undef %expanded;
604        dbmclose(%global); undef %global;
605
606     Normally these would be broken into six lines, but 
607     perltidy -kis gives:
608
609        dbmclose(%verb_delim); undef %verb_delim;
610        dbmclose(%expanded);   undef %expanded;
611        dbmclose(%global);     undef %global;
612 
613     -Improved formatting of complex ternary statements, with indentation
614     of nested statements.  
615      OLD:
616        return defined( $cw->{Selected} )
617          ? (wantarray)
618          ? @{ $cw->{Selected} }
619          : $cw->{Selected}[0]
620          : undef;
621
622      NEW:
623        return defined( $cw->{Selected} )
624          ? (wantarray)
625              ? @{ $cw->{Selected} }
626              : $cw->{Selected}[0]
627          : undef;
628
629     -Text following un-parenthesized if/unless/while/until statements get a
630     full level of indentation.  Suggested by Jeff Armstorng and others. 
631     OLD:
632        return $ship->chargeWeapons("phaser-canon")
633          if $encounter->description eq 'klingon'
634          and $ship->firepower >= $encounter->firepower
635          and $location->status ne 'neutral';
636     NEW:
637        return $ship->chargeWeapons("phaser-canon")
638          if $encounter->description eq 'klingon'
639              and $ship->firepower >= $encounter->firepower
640              and $location->status ne 'neutral';
641
642  2007 05 08
643     -Fixed bug where #line directives were being indented.  Thanks to
644     Philippe Bruhat.
645
646  2007 05 04
647     -Fixed problem where an extra blank line was added after an =cut when either
648     (a) the =cut started (not stopped) a POD section, or (b) -mbl > 1. 
649     Thanks to J. Robert Ray and Bill Moseley.
650
651  2007 04 24
652     -ole (--output-line-ending) and -ple (--preserve-line-endings) should
653     now work on all systems rather than just unix systems. Thanks to Dan
654     Tyrell.
655
656     -Fixed problem of a warning issued for multiple subs for BEGIN subs
657     and other control subs. Thanks to Heiko Eissfeldt.
658 
659     -Fixed problem where no space was introduced between a keyword or
660     bareword and a colon, such as:
661
662     ( ref($result) eq 'HASH' && !%$result ) ? undef: $result;
663
664     Thanks to Niek.
665
666     -Added a utility program 'break_long_quotes.pl' to the examples directory of
667     the distribution.  It breaks long quoted strings into a chain of concatenated
668     sub strings no longer than a selected length.  Suggested by Michael Renner as
669     a perltidy feature but was judged to be best done in a separate program.
670
671     -Updated docs to remove extra < and >= from list of tokens 
672     after which breaks are made by default.  Thanks to Bob Kleemann.
673
674     -Removed improper uses of $_ to avoid conflicts with external calls, giving
675     error message similar to:
676        Modification of a read-only value attempted at 
677        /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy.pm line 6907.
678     Thanks to Michael Renner.
679
680     -Fixed problem when errorfile was not a plain filename or filehandle
681     in a call to Tidy.pm.  The call
682     perltidy(source => \$input, destination => \$output, errorfile => \$err);
683     gave the following error message:
684      Not a GLOB reference at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy.pm line 3827.
685     Thanks to Michael Renner and Phillipe Bruhat.
686
687     -Fixed problem where -sot would not stack an opening token followed by
688     a side comment.  Thanks to Jens Schicke.
689
690     -improved breakpoints in complex math and other long statements. Example:
691     OLD:
692        return
693          log($n) + 0.577215664901532 + ( 1 / ( 2 * $n ) ) -
694          ( 1 / ( 12 * ( $n**2 ) ) ) + ( 1 / ( 120 * ( $n**4 ) ) );
695     NEW:
696        return
697          log($n) + 0.577215664901532 +
698          ( 1 / ( 2 * $n ) ) -
699          ( 1 / ( 12 * ( $n**2 ) ) ) +
700          ( 1 / ( 120 * ( $n**4 ) ) );
701
702     -more robust vertical alignment of complex terminal else blocks and ternary
703     statements.
704
705  2006 07 19
706     -Eliminated bug where a here-doc invoked through an 'e' modifier on a pattern
707     replacement text was not recognized.  The tokenizer now recursively scans
708     replacement text (but does not reformat it).
709
710     -improved vertical alignment of terminal else blocks and ternary statements.
711      Thanks to Chris for the suggestion. 
712
713      OLD:
714        if    ( IsBitmap() ) { return GetBitmap(); }
715        elsif ( IsFiles() )  { return GetFiles(); }
716        else { return GetText(); }
717
718      NEW:
719        if    ( IsBitmap() ) { return GetBitmap(); }
720        elsif ( IsFiles() )  { return GetFiles(); }
721        else                 { return GetText(); }
722
723      OLD:
724        $which_search =
725            $opts{"t"} ? 'title'
726          : $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
727          : $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
728          : 'title';
729
730      NEW:
731        $which_search =
732            $opts{"t"} ? 'title'
733          : $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
734          : $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
735          :              'title';
736
737     -improved indentation of try/catch blocks and other externally defined
738     functions accepting a block argument.  Thanks to jae.
739
740     -Added support for Perl 5.10 features say and smartmatch.
741
742     -Added flag -pbp (--perl-best-practices) as an abbreviation for parameters
743     suggested in Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices".  -pbp is the same as:
744
745        -l=78 -i=4 -ci=4 -st -se -vt=2 -cti=0 -pt=1 -bt=1 -sbt=1 -bbt=1 -nsfs -nolq
746        -wbb="% + - * / x != == >= <= =~ !~ < > | & >= < = 
747              **= += *= &= <<= &&= -= /= |= >>= ||= .= %= ^= x="
748
749      Please note that the -st here restricts input to standard input; use
750      -nst if necessary to override.
751
752     -Eliminated some needless breaks at equals signs in -lp indentation.
753
754        OLD:
755            $c =
756              Math::Complex->make(LEFT + $x * (RIGHT - LEFT) / SIZE,
757                                  TOP + $y * (BOTTOM - TOP) / SIZE);
758        NEW:
759            $c = Math::Complex->make(LEFT + $x * (RIGHT - LEFT) / SIZE,
760                                     TOP + $y * (BOTTOM - TOP) / SIZE);
761
762     A break at an equals is sometimes useful for preventing complex statements 
763     from hitting the line length limit.  The decision to do this was 
764     over-eager in some cases and has been improved.  Thanks to Royce Reece.
765
766     -qw quotes contained in braces, square brackets, and parens are being
767     treated more like those containers as far as stacking of tokens.  Also
768     stack of closing tokens ending ');' will outdent to where the ');' would
769     have outdented if the closing stack is matched with a similar opening stack.
770
771      OLD: perltidy -soc -sct
772        __PACKAGE__->load_components(
773            qw(
774              PK::Auto
775              Core
776              )
777        );
778      NEW: perltidy -soc -sct
779        __PACKAGE__->load_components( qw(
780              PK::Auto
781              Core
782        ) );
783      Thanks to Aran Deltac
784
785     -Eliminated some undesirable or marginally desirable vertical alignments.
786     These include terminal colons, opening braces, and equals, and particularly
787     when just two lines would be aligned.
788
789     OLD:
790        my $accurate_timestamps = $Stamps{lnk};
791        my $has_link            = 
792            ...
793     NEW:
794        my $accurate_timestamps = $Stamps{lnk};
795        my $has_link =
796
797     -Corrected a problem with -mangle in which a space would be removed
798     between a keyword and variable beginning with ::.
799
800  2006 06 14
801     -Attribute argument lists are now correctly treated as quoted strings
802     and not formatted.  This is the most important update in this version.
803     Thanks to Borris Zentner, Greg Ferguson, Steve Kirkup.
804
805     -Updated to recognize the defined or operator, //, to be released in Perl 10.
806     Thanks to Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni.
807
808     -A useful utility perltidyrc_dump.pl is included in the examples section.  It
809     will read any perltidyrc file and write it back out in a standard format
810     (though comments are lost).
811
812     -Added option to have perltidy read and return a hash with the contents of a
813     perltidyrc file.  This may be used by Leif Eriksen's tidyview code.  This
814     feature is used by the demonstration program 'perltidyrc_dump.pl' in the
815     examples directory.
816
817     -Improved error checking in perltidyrc files.  Unknown bare words were not
818     being caught.
819
820     -The --dump-options parameter now dumps parameters in the format required by a
821     perltidyrc file.
822
823     -V-Strings with underscores are now recognized.
824     For example: $v = v1.2_3; 
825
826     -cti=3 option added which gives one extra indentation level to closing 
827     tokens always.  This provides more predictable closing token placement
828     than cti=2.  If you are using cti=2 you might want to try cti=3.
829
830     -To identify all left-adjusted comments as static block comments, use C<-sbcp='^#'>.
831
832     -New parameters -fs, -fsb, -fse added to allow sections of code between #<<<
833     and #>>> to be passed through verbatim. This is enabled by default and turned
834     off by -nfs.  Flags -fsb and -fse allow other beginning and ending markers.
835     Thanks to Wolfgang Werner and Marion Berryman for suggesting this.  
836
837     -added flag -skp to put a space between all Perl keywords and following paren.
838     The default is to only do this for certain keywords.  Suggested by
839     H.Merijn Brand.
840
841     -added flag -sfp to put a space between a function name and following paren.
842     The default is not to do this.  Suggested by H.Merijn Brand.
843
844     -Added patch to avoid breaking GetOpt::Long::Configure set by calling program. 
845     Thanks to Philippe Bruhat.
846
847     -An error was fixed in which certain parameters in a .perltidyrc file given
848     without the equals sign were not recognized.  That is,
849     '--brace-tightness 0' gave an error but '--brace-tightness=0' worked
850     ok.  Thanks to Zac Hansen.
851
852     -An error preventing the -nwrs flag from working was corrected. Thanks to
853      Greg Ferguson.
854
855     -Corrected some alignment problems with entab option.
856
857     -A bug with the combination of -lp and -extrude was fixed (though this
858     combination doesn't really make sense).  The bug was that a line with
859     a single zero would be dropped.  Thanks to Cameron Hayne.
860
861     -Updated Windows detection code to avoid an undefined variable.
862     Thanks to Joe Yates and Russ Jones.
863
864     -Improved formatting for short trailing statements following a closing paren.
865     Thanks to Joe Matarazzo.
866
867     -The handling of the -icb (indent closing block braces) flag has been changed
868     slightly to provide more consistent and predictable formatting of complex
869     structures.  Instead of giving a closing block brace the indentation of the
870     previous line, it is now given one extra indentation level.  The two methods
871     give the same result if the previous line was a complete statement, as in this
872     example:
873
874            if ($task) {
875                yyy();
876                }    # -icb
877            else {
878                zzz();
879                }
880     The change also fixes a problem with empty blocks such as:
881
882        OLD, -icb:
883        elsif ($debug) {
884        }
885
886        NEW, -icb:
887        elsif ($debug) {
888            }
889
890     -A problem with -icb was fixed in which a closing brace was misplaced when
891     it followed a quote which spanned multiple lines.
892
893     -Some improved breakpoints for -wba='&& || and or'
894
895     -Fixed problem with misaligned cuddled else in complex statements
896     when the -bar flag was also used.  Thanks to Alex and Royce Reese.
897
898     -Corrected documentation to show that --outdent-long-comments is the default.
899     Thanks to Mario Lia.
900
901     -New flag -otr (opening-token-right) is similar to -bar (braces-always-right)
902     but applies to non-structural opening tokens.
903
904     -new flags -sot (stack-opening-token), -sct (stack-closing-token).
905     Suggested by Tony.
906
907  2003 10 21
908     -The default has been changed to not do syntax checking with perl.  
909       Use -syn if you want it.  Perltidy is very robust now, and the -syn
910       flag now causes more problems than it's worth because of BEGIN blocks
911       (which get executed with perl -c).  For example, perltidy will never
912       return when trying to beautify this code if -syn is used:
913
914            BEGIN { 1 while { }; }
915
916      Although this is an obvious error, perltidy is often run on untested
917      code which is more likely to have this sort of problem.  A more subtle
918      example is:
919
920            BEGIN { use FindBin; }
921
922      which may hang on some systems using -syn if a shared file system is
923      unavailable.
924
925     -Changed style -gnu to use -cti=1 instead of -cti=2 (see next item).
926      In most cases it looks better.  To recover the previous format, use
927      '-gnu -cti=2'
928
929     -Added flags -cti=n for finer control of closing token indentation.
930       -cti = 0 no extra indentation (default; same as -nicp)
931       -cti = 1 enough indentation so that the closing token
932            aligns with its opening token.
933       -cti = 2 one extra indentation level if the line has the form 
934              );   ];   or   };     (same as -icp).
935
936       The new option -cti=1 works well with -lp:
937
938       EXAMPLES:
939
940        # perltidy -lp -cti=1
941        @month_of_year = (
942                           'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
943                           'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
944                         );
945
946        # perltidy -lp -cti=2
947        @month_of_year = (
948                           'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
949                           'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
950                           );
951      This is backwards compatible with -icp. See revised manual for
952      details.  Suggested by Mike Pennington.
953  
954     -Added flag '--preserve-line-endings' or '-ple' to cause the output
955      line ending to be the same as in the input file, for unix, dos, 
956      or mac line endings.  Only works under unix. Suggested by 
957      Rainer Hochschild.
958
959     -Added flag '--output-line-ending=s' or '-ole=s' where s=dos or win,
960      unix, or mac.  Only works under unix.
961
962     -Files with Mac line endings should now be handled properly under unix
963      and dos without being passed through a converter.
964
965     -You may now include 'and', 'or', and 'xor' in the list following
966      '--want-break-after' to get line breaks after those keywords rather than
967      before them.  Suggested by Rainer Hochschild.
968
969     -Corrected problem with command line option for -vtc=n and -vt=n. The
970      equals sign was being eaten up by the Windows shell so perltidy didn't
971      see it.
972
973  2003 07 26
974     -Corrected cause of warning message with recent versions of Perl:
975        "Possible precedence problem on bitwise & operator at ..."
976      Thanks to Jim Files.
977
978     -fixed bug with -html with '=for pod2html' sections, in which code/pod
979     output order was incorrect.  Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval.
980
981     -fixed bug when the -html flag is used, in which the following error
982     message, plus others, appear:
983         did not see <body> in pod2html output
984     This was caused by a change in the format of html output by pod2html
985     VERSION 1.04 (included with perl 5.8).  Thanks to Tassilo von Parseval.
986
987     -Fixed bug where an __END__ statement would be mistaken for a label
988     if it is immediately followed by a line with a leading colon. Thanks
989     to John Bayes.
990 
991     -Implemented guessing logic for brace types when it is ambiguous.  This
992     has been on the TODO list a long time.  Thanks to Boris Zentner for
993     an example.
994
995     -Long options may now be negated either as '--nolong-option' 
996     or '--no-long-option'.  Thanks to Philip Newton for the suggestion.
997
998     -added flag --html-entities or -hent which controls the use of
999     Html::Entities for html formatting.  Use --nohtml-entities or -nhent to
1000     prevent the use of Html::Entities to encode special symbols.  The
1001     default is -hent.  Html::Entities when formatting perl text to escape
1002     special symbols.  This may or may not be the right thing to do,
1003     depending on browser/language combinations.  Thanks to Burak Gursoy for
1004     this suggestion.
1005
1006     -Bareword strings with leading '-', like, '-foo' now count as 1 token
1007     for horizontal tightness.  This way $a{'-foo'}, $a{foo}, and $a{-foo}
1008     are now all treated similarly.  Thus, by default, OLD: $a{ -foo } will
1009     now be NEW: $a{-foo}.  Suggested by Mark Olesen.
1010
1011     -added 2 new flags to control spaces between keywords and opening parens:
1012       -sak=s  or --space-after-keyword=s,  and
1013       -nsak=s or --nospace-after-keyword=s, where 's' is a list of keywords.
1014
1015     The new default list of keywords which get a space is:
1016
1017       "my local our and or eq ne if else elsif until unless while for foreach
1018         return switch case given when"
1019
1020     Use -sak=s and -nsak=s to add and remove keywords from this list,
1021        respectively.
1022
1023     Explanation: Stephen Hildrey noted that perltidy was being inconsistent
1024     in placing spaces between keywords and opening parens, and sent a patch
1025     to give user control over this.  The above list was selected as being
1026     a reasonable default keyword list.  Previously, perltidy
1027     had a hardwired list which also included these keywords:
1028
1029            push pop shift unshift join split die
1030
1031     but did not have 'our'.  Example: if you prefer to make perltidy behave
1032     exactly as before, you can include the following two lines in your
1033     .perltidyrc file: 
1034
1035       -sak="push pop local shift unshift join split die"
1036       -nsak="our"
1037
1038     -Corrected html error in .toc file when -frm -html is used (extra ");
1039      browsers were tolerant of it.
1040
1041     -Improved alignment of chains of binary and ?/: operators. Example:
1042      OLD:
1043        $leapyear =
1044          $year % 4     ? 0
1045          : $year % 100 ? 1
1046          : $year % 400 ? 0
1047          : 1;
1048      NEW:
1049        $leapyear =
1050            $year % 4   ? 0
1051          : $year % 100 ? 1
1052          : $year % 400 ? 0
1053          : 1;
1054
1055     -improved breakpoint choices involving '->'
1056
1057     -Corrected tokenization of things like ${#} or ${�}. For example,
1058      ${�} is valid, but ${� } is a syntax error.
1059
1060     -Corrected minor tokenization errors with indirect object notation.
1061      For example, 'new A::()' works now.
1062
1063     -Minor tokenization improvements; all perl code distributed with perl 5.8 
1064      seems to be parsed correctly except for one instance (lextest.t) 
1065      of the known bug.
1066
1067  2002 11 30
1068     -Implemented scalar attributes.  Thanks to Sean Tobin for noting this.
1069
1070     -Fixed glitch introduced in previous release where -pre option
1071     was not outputting a leading html <pre> tag.
1072
1073     -Numerous minor improvements in vertical alignment, including the following:
1074
1075     -Improved alignment of opening braces in many cases.  Needed for improved
1076     switch/case formatting, and also suggested by Mark Olesen for sort/map/grep
1077     formatting.  For example:
1078
1079      OLD:
1080        @modified =
1081          map { $_->[0] }
1082          sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
1083          map { [ $_, -M ] } @filenames;
1084
1085      NEW:
1086        @modified =
1087          map  { $_->[0] }
1088          sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
1089          map  { [ $_, -M ] } @filenames;
1090
1091     -Eliminated alignments across unrelated statements. Example:
1092      OLD:
1093        $borrowerinfo->configure( -state => 'disabled' );
1094        $borrowerinfo->grid( -col        => 1, -row => 0, -sticky => 'w' );
1095
1096      NEW:  
1097        $borrowerinfo->configure( -state => 'disabled' );
1098        $borrowerinfo->grid( -col => 1, -row => 0, -sticky => 'w' );
1099
1100      Thanks to Mark Olesen for suggesting this.
1101
1102     -Improved alignement of '='s in certain cases.
1103      Thanks to Norbert Gruener for sending an example.
1104
1105     -Outdent-long-comments (-olc) has been re-instated as a default, since
1106      it works much better now.  Use -nolc if you want to prevent it.
1107
1108     -Added check for 'perltidy file.pl -o file.pl', which causes file.pl
1109     to be lost. (The -b option should be used instead). Thanks to mreister
1110     for reporting this problem.
1111
1112  2002 11 06
1113     -Switch/case or given/when syntax is now recognized.  Its vertical alignment
1114     is not great yet, but it parses ok.  The words 'switch', 'case', 'given',
1115     and 'when' are now treated as keywords.  If this causes trouble with older
1116     code, we could introduce a switch to deactivate it.  Thanks to Stan Brown
1117     and Jochen Schneider for recommending this.
1118
1119     -Corrected error parsing sub attributes with call parameters.
1120     Thanks to Marc Kerr for catching this.
1121
1122     -Sub prototypes no longer need to be on the same line as sub names.  
1123
1124     -a new flag -frm or --frames will cause html output to be in a
1125     frame, with table of contents in the left panel and formatted source
1126     in the right panel.  Try 'perltidy -html -frm somemodule.pm' for example.
1127
1128     -The new default for -html formatting is to pass the pod through Pod::Html.
1129     The result is syntax colored code within your pod documents. This can be
1130     deactivated with -npod.  Thanks to those who have written to discuss this,
1131     particularly Mark Olesen and Hugh Myers.
1132
1133     -the -olc (--outdent-long-comments) option works much better.  It now outdents
1134     groups of consecutive comments together, and by just the amount needed to
1135     avoid having any one line exceeding the maximum line length.
1136
1137     -block comments are now trimmed of trailing whitespace.
1138
1139     -if a directory specified with -opath does not exist, it will be created.
1140
1141     -a table of contents to packages and subs is output when -html is used.
1142     Use -ntoc to prevent this. 
1143
1144     -fixed an unusual bug in which a 'for' statement following a 'format'
1145     statement was not correctly tokenized.  Thanks to Boris Zentner for
1146     catching this.
1147
1148     -Tidy.pm is no longer dependent on modules IO::Scalar and IO::ScalarArray.  
1149     There were some speed issues.  Suggested by Joerg Walter.
1150
1151     -The treatment of quoted wildcards (file globs) is now system-independent. 
1152     For example
1153
1154        perltidy 'b*x.p[lm]'
1155
1156     would match box.pl, box.pm, brinx.pm under any operating system.  Of
1157     course, anything unquoted will be subject to expansion by any shell.
1158
1159     -default color for keywords under -html changed from 
1160     SaddleBrown (#8B4513) to magenta4 (#8B008B).
1161
1162     -fixed an arg parsing glitch in which something like:
1163       perltidy quick-help
1164     would trigger the help message and exit, rather than operate on the
1165     file 'quick-help'.
1166
1167  2002 09 22
1168     -New option '-b' or '--backup-and-modify-in-place' will cause perltidy to
1169     overwrite the original file with the tidied output file.  The original
1170     file will be saved with a '.bak' extension (which can be changed with
1171     -bext=s).  Thanks to Rudi Farkas for the suggestion.
1172
1173     -An index to all subs is included at the top of -html output, unless
1174     only the <pre> section is written.
1175
1176     -Anchor lines of the form <a name="mysub"></a> are now inserted at key points
1177     in html output, such as before sub definitions, for the convenience of
1178     postprocessing scripts.  Suggested by Howard Owen.
1179
1180     -The cuddled-else (-ce) flag now also makes cuddled continues, like
1181     this:
1182
1183        while ( ( $pack, $file, $line ) = caller( $i++ ) ) {
1184           # bla bla
1185        } continue {
1186            $prevpack = $pack;
1187        }
1188
1189     Suggested by Simon Perreault.  
1190
1191     -Fixed bug in which an extra blank line was added before an =head or 
1192     similar pod line after an __END__ or __DATA__ line each time 
1193     perltidy was run.  Also, an extra blank was being added after
1194     a terminal =cut.  Thanks to Mike Birdsall for reporting this.
1195
1196  2002 08 26
1197     -Fixed bug in which space was inserted in a hyphenated hash key:
1198        my $val = $myhash{USER-NAME};
1199      was converted to:
1200        my $val = $myhash{USER -NAME}; 
1201      Thanks to an anonymous bug reporter at sourceforge.
1202
1203     -Fixed problem with the '-io' ('--indent-only') where all lines 
1204      were double spaced.  Thanks to Nick Andrew for reporting this bug.
1205
1206     -Fixed tokenization error in which something like '-e1' was 
1207      parsed as a number. 
1208
1209     -Corrected a rare problem involving older perl versions, in which 
1210      a line break before a bareword caused problems with 'use strict'.
1211      Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for noting this.
1212
1213     -More syntax error checking added.
1214
1215     -Outdenting labels (-ola) has been made the default, in order to follow the
1216      perlstyle guidelines better.  It's probably a good idea in general, but
1217      if you do not want this, use -nola in your .perltidyrc file.
1218  
1219     -Updated rules for padding logical expressions to include more cases.
1220      Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful discussions.
1221
1222     -Added new flag -osbc (--outdent-static-block-comments) which will
1223      outdent static block comments by 2 spaces (or whatever -ci equals).
1224      Requested by Jon Robison.
1225
1226  2002 04 25
1227     -Corrected a bug, introduced in the previous release, in which some
1228      closing side comments (-csc) could have incorrect text.  This is
1229      annoying but will be correct the next time perltidy is run with -csc.
1230
1231     -Implemented XHTML patch submitted by Ville Skytt�.
1232
1233     -Fixed bug where whitespace was being removed between 'Bar' and '()' 
1234      in a use statement like:
1235
1236           use Foo::Bar ();
1237
1238      Thanks to Ville Skytt� for reporting this.
1239
1240     -Whenever possible, if a logical expression is broken with leading
1241      '&&', '||', 'and', or 'or', then the leading line will be padded
1242      with additional space to produce alignment.  This has been on the
1243      todo list for a long time; thanks to Frank Steinhauer for reminding
1244      me to do it.  Notice the first line after the open parens here:
1245
1246            OLD: perltidy -lp
1247            if (
1248                 !param("rules.to.$linecount")
1249                 && !param("rules.from.$linecount")
1250                 && !param("rules.subject.$linecount")
1251                 && !(
1252                       param("rules.fieldname.$linecount")
1253                       && param("rules.fieldval.$linecount")
1254                 )
1255                 && !param("rules.size.$linecount")
1256                 && !param("rules.custom.$linecount")
1257              )
1258
1259            NEW: perltidy -lp
1260            if (
1261                    !param("rules.to.$linecount")
1262                 && !param("rules.from.$linecount")
1263                 && !param("rules.subject.$linecount")
1264                 && !(
1265                          param("rules.fieldname.$linecount")
1266                       && param("rules.fieldval.$linecount")
1267                 )
1268                 && !param("rules.size.$linecount")
1269                 && !param("rules.custom.$linecount")
1270              )
1271
1272  2002 04 16
1273     -Corrected a mistokenization of variables for a package with a name
1274      equal to a perl keyword.  For example: 
1275
1276         my::qx();
1277         package my;
1278         sub qx{print "Hello from my::qx\n";}
1279
1280      In this case, the leading 'my' was mistokenized as a keyword, and a
1281      space was being place between 'my' and '::'.  This has been
1282      corrected.  Thanks to Martin Sluka for discovering this. 
1283
1284     -A new flag -bol (--break-at-old-logic-breakpoints)
1285      has been added to control whether containers with logical expressions
1286      should be broken open.  This is the default.
1287
1288     -A new flag -bok (--break-at-old-keyword-breakpoints)
1289      has been added to follow breaks at old keywords which return lists,
1290      such as sort and map.  This is the default.
1291
1292     -A new flag -bot (--break-at-old-trinary-breakpoints) has been added to
1293      follow breaks at trinary (conditional) operators.  This is the default.
1294
1295     -A new flag -cab=n has been added to control breaks at commas after
1296      '=>' tokens.  The default is n=1, meaning break unless this breaks
1297      open an existing on-line container.
1298
1299     -A new flag -boc has been added to allow existing list formatting
1300      to be retained.  (--break-at-old-comma-breakpoints).  See updated manual.
1301
1302     -A new flag -iob (--ignore-old-breakpoints) has been added to
1303      prevent the locations of old breakpoints from influencing the output
1304      format.
1305
1306     -Corrected problem where nested parentheses were not getting full
1307      indentation.  This has been on the todo list for some time; thanks 
1308      to Axel Rose for a snippet demonstrating this issue.
1309
1310                OLD: inner list is not indented
1311                $this->sendnumeric(
1312                    $this->server,
1313                    (
1314                      $ret->name,        $user->username, $user->host,
1315                    $user->server->name, $user->nick,     "H"
1316                    ),
1317                );
1318
1319                NEW:
1320                $this->sendnumeric(
1321                    $this->server,
1322                    (
1323                        $ret->name,          $user->username, $user->host,
1324                        $user->server->name, $user->nick,     "H"
1325                    ),
1326                );
1327
1328     -Code cleaned up by removing the following unused, undocumented flags.
1329      They should not be in any .perltidyrc files because they were just
1330      experimental flags which were never documented.  Most of them placed
1331      artificial limits on spaces, and Wolfgang Weisselberg convinced me that
1332      most of them they do more harm than good by causing unexpected results.
1333
1334      --maximum-continuation-indentation (-mci)
1335      --maximum-whitespace-columns
1336      --maximum-space-to-comment (-xsc)
1337      --big-space-jump (-bsj)
1338
1339     -Pod file 'perltidy.pod' has been appended to the script 'perltidy', and
1340      Tidy.pod has been append to the module 'Tidy.pm'.  Older MakeMaker's
1341      were having trouble.
1342 
1343     -A new flag -isbc has been added for more control on comments. This flag
1344      has the effect that if there is no leading space on the line, then the
1345      comment will not be indented, and otherwise it may be.  If both -ibc and
1346      -isbc are set, then -isbc takes priority.  Thanks to Frank Steinhauer
1347      for suggesting this.
1348
1349     -A new document 'stylekey.pod' has been created to quickly guide new users
1350      through the maze of perltidy style parameters.  An html version is 
1351      on the perltidy web page.  Take a look! It should be very helpful.
1352
1353     -Parameters for controlling 'vertical tightness' have been added:
1354      -vt and -vtc are the main controls, but finer control is provided
1355      with -pvt, -pcvt, -bvt, -bcvt, -sbvt, -sbcvt.  Block brace vertical
1356      tightness controls have also been added.
1357      See updated manual and also see 'stylekey.pod'. Simple examples:
1358
1359        # perltidy -lp -vt=1 -vtc=1
1360        @month_of_year = ( 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
1361                           'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec' );
1362
1363        # perltidy -lp -vt=1 -vtc=0
1364        @month_of_year = ( 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
1365                           'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'
1366        );
1367
1368     -Lists which do not format well in uniform columns are now better
1369      identified and formated.
1370
1371        OLD:
1372        return $c->create( 'polygon', $x, $y, $x + $ruler_info{'size'},
1373            $y + $ruler_info{'size'}, $x - $ruler_info{'size'},
1374            $y + $ruler_info{'size'} );
1375
1376        NEW:
1377        return $c->create(
1378            'polygon', $x, $y,
1379            $x + $ruler_info{'size'},
1380            $y + $ruler_info{'size'},
1381            $x - $ruler_info{'size'},
1382            $y + $ruler_info{'size'}
1383        );
1384
1385        OLD:
1386          radlablist($f1, pad('Initial', $p), $b->{Init}->get_panel_ref, 'None ',
1387                     'None', 'Default', 'Default', 'Simple', 'Simple');
1388        NEW:
1389          radlablist($f1,
1390                     pad('Initial', $p),
1391                     $b->{Init}->get_panel_ref,
1392                     'None ', 'None', 'Default', 'Default', 'Simple', 'Simple');
1393
1394     -Corrected problem where an incorrect html filename was generated for 
1395      external calls to Tidy.pm module.  Fixed incorrect html title when
1396      Tidy.pm is called with IO::Scalar or IO::Array source.
1397
1398     -Output file permissons are now set as follows.  An output script file
1399      gets the same permission as the input file, except that owner
1400      read/write permission is added (otherwise, perltidy could not be
1401      rerun).  Html output files use system defaults.  Previously chmod 0755
1402      was used in all cases.  Thanks to Mark Olesen for bringing this up.
1403
1404     -Missing semicolons will not be added in multi-line blocks of type
1405      sort, map, or grep.  This brings perltidy into closer agreement
1406      with common practice.  Of course, you can still put semicolons 
1407      there if you like.  Thanks to Simon Perreault for a discussion of this.
1408
1409     -Most instances of extra semicolons are now deleted.  This is
1410      particularly important if the -csc option is used.  Thanks to Wolfgang
1411      Weisselberg for noting this.  For example, the following line
1412      (produced by 'h2xs' :) has an extra semicolon which will now be
1413      removed:
1414
1415         BEGIN { plan tests => 1 };
1416
1417     -New parameter -csce (--closing-side-comment-else-flag) can be used
1418      to control what text is appended to 'else' and 'elsif' blocks.
1419      Default is to just add leading 'if' text to an 'else'.  See manual.
1420
1421     -The -csc option now labels 'else' blocks with additinal information
1422      from the opening if statement and elsif statements, if space.
1423      Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for suggesting this.
1424
1425     -The -csc option will now remove any old closing side comments
1426      below the line interval threshold. Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for
1427      suggesting this.
1428
1429     -The abbreviation feature, which was broken in the previous version,
1430      is now fixed.  Thanks to Michael Cartmell for noting this.
1431
1432     -Vertical alignment is now done for '||='  .. somehow this was 
1433      overlooked.
1434
1435  2002 02 25
1436     -This version uses modules for the first time, and a standard perl
1437      Makefile.PL has been supplied.  However, perltidy may still be
1438      installed as a single script, without modules.  See INSTALL for
1439      details.
1440
1441     -The man page 'perl2web' has been merged back into the main 'perltidy'
1442      man page to simplify installation.  So you may remove that man page
1443      if you have an older installation.
1444
1445     -Added patch from Axel Rose for MacPerl.  The patch prompts the user
1446      for command line arguments before calling the module 
1447      Perl::Tidy::perltidy.
1448
1449     -Corrected bug with '-bar' which was introduced in the previous
1450      version.  A closing block brace was being indented.  Thanks to
1451      Alexandros M Manoussakis for reporting this.
1452
1453     -New parameter '--entab-leading-whitespace=n', or '-et=n', has been
1454      added for those who prefer tabs.  This behaves different from the
1455      existing '-t' parameter; see updated man page.  Suggested by Mark
1456      Olesen.
1457
1458     -New parameter '--perl-syntax-check-flags=s'  or '-pcsf=s' can be
1459      used to change the flags passed to perltidy in a syntax check.
1460      See updated man page.  Suggested by Mark Olesen. 
1461
1462     -New parameter '--output-path=s'  or '-opath=s' will cause output
1463      files to be placed in directory s.  See updated man page.  Thanks for
1464      Mark Olesen for suggesting this.
1465
1466     -New parameter --dump-profile (or -dpro) will dump to
1467      standard output information about the search for a
1468      configuration file, the name of whatever configuration file
1469      is selected, and its contents.  This should help debugging
1470      config files, especially on different Windows systems.
1471
1472     -The -w parameter now notes possible errors of the form:
1473
1474            $comment = s/^\s*(\S+)\..*/$1/;   # trim whitespace
1475
1476     -Corrections added for a leading ':' and for leaving a leading 'tcsh'
1477      line untouched.  Mark Olesen reported that lines of this form were
1478      accepted by perl but not by perltidy:
1479
1480            : # use -*- perl -*-
1481            eval 'exec perl -wS $0 "$@"'  # shell should exec 'perl'
1482            unless 1;                     # but Perl should skip this one
1483
1484      Perl will silently swallow a leading colon on line 1 of a
1485      script, and now perltidy will do likewise.  For example,
1486      this is a valid script, provided that it is the first line,
1487      but not otherwise:
1488
1489            : print "Hello World\n";
1490  
1491      Also, perltidy will now mark a first line with leading ':' followed by
1492      '#' as type SYSTEM (just as a #!  line), not to be formatted.
1493
1494     -List formatting improved for certain lists with special
1495      initial terms, such as occur with 'printf', 'sprintf',
1496      'push', 'pack', 'join', 'chmod'.  The special initial term is
1497      now placed on a line by itself.  For example, perltidy -gnu
1498
1499         OLD:
1500            $Addr = pack(
1501                         "C4",                hex($SourceAddr[0]),
1502                         hex($SourceAddr[1]), hex($SourceAddr[2]),
1503                         hex($SourceAddr[3])
1504                         );
1505
1506         NEW:
1507            $Addr = pack("C4",
1508                         hex($SourceAddr[0]), hex($SourceAddr[1]),
1509                         hex($SourceAddr[2]), hex($SourceAddr[3]));
1510
1511          OLD:
1512                push (
1513                      @{$$self{states}}, '64', '66', '68',
1514                      '70',              '72', '74', '76',
1515                      '78',              '80', '82', '84',
1516                      '86',              '88', '90', '92',
1517                      '94',              '96', '98', '100',
1518                      '102',             '104'
1519                      );
1520
1521          NEW:
1522                push (
1523                      @{$$self{states}},
1524                      '64', '66', '68', '70', '72',  '74',  '76',
1525                      '78', '80', '82', '84', '86',  '88',  '90',
1526                      '92', '94', '96', '98', '100', '102', '104'
1527                      );
1528
1529     -Lists of complex items, such as matricies, are now detected
1530      and displayed with just one item per row:
1531
1532        OLD:
1533        $this->{'CURRENT'}{'gfx'}{'MatrixSkew'} = Text::PDF::API::Matrix->new(
1534            [ 1, tan( deg2rad($a) ), 0 ], [ tan( deg2rad($b) ), 1, 0 ],
1535            [ 0, 0, 1 ]
1536        );
1537
1538        NEW:
1539        $this->{'CURRENT'}{'gfx'}{'MatrixSkew'} = Text::PDF::API::Matrix->new(
1540            [ 1,                  tan( deg2rad($a) ), 0 ],
1541            [ tan( deg2rad($b) ), 1,                  0 ],
1542            [ 0,                  0,                  1 ]
1543        );
1544
1545     -The perl syntax check will be turned off for now when input is from
1546      standard input or standard output.  The reason is that this requires
1547      temporary files, which has produced far too many problems during
1548      Windows testing.  For example, the POSIX module under Windows XP/2000
1549      creates temporary names in the root directory, to which only the
1550      administrator should have permission to write.
1551
1552     -Merged patch sent by Yves Orton to handle appropriate
1553      configuration file locations for different Windows varieties
1554      (2000, NT, Me, XP, 95, 98).
1555
1556     -Added patch to properly handle a for/foreach loop without
1557      parens around a list represented as a qw.  I didn't know this
1558      was possible until Wolfgang Weisselberg pointed it out:
1559
1560            foreach my $key qw\Uno Due Tres Quadro\ {
1561                print "Set $key\n";
1562            }
1563
1564      But Perl will give a syntax error without the $ variable; ie this will
1565      not work:
1566
1567            foreach qw\Uno Due Tres Quadro\ {
1568                print "Set $_\n";
1569            }
1570
1571     -Merged Windows version detection code sent by Yves Orton.  Perltidy
1572      now automatically turns off syntax checking for Win 9x/ME versions,
1573      and this has solved a lot of robustness problems.  These systems 
1574      cannot reliably handle backtick operators.  See man page for
1575      details.
1576  
1577     -Merged VMS filename handling patch sent by Michael Cartmell.  (Invalid
1578      output filenames were being created in some cases). 
1579
1580     -Numerous minor improvements have been made for -lp style indentation.
1581
1582     -Long C-style 'for' expressions will be broken after each ';'.   
1583
1584      'perltidy -gnu' gives:
1585
1586        OLD:
1587        for ($status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_CURSOR()) ; $status == 0
1588             and $key eq $origkey ; $status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_NEXT())) 
1589
1590        NEW:
1591        for ($status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_CURSOR()) ;
1592             $status == 0 and $key eq $origkey ;
1593             $status = $db->seq($key, $value, R_NEXT()))
1594
1595     -For the -lp option, a single long term within parens
1596      (without commas) now has better alignment.  For example,
1597      perltidy -gnu
1598
1599                OLD:
1600                $self->throw("Must specify a known host, not $location,"
1601                      . " possible values ("
1602                      . join (",", sort keys %hosts) . ")");
1603
1604                NEW:
1605                $self->throw("Must specify a known host, not $location,"
1606                             . " possible values ("
1607                             . join (",", sort keys %hosts) . ")");
1608
1609  2001 12 31
1610     -This version is about 20 percent faster than the previous
1611      version as a result of optimization work.  The largest gain
1612      came from switching to a dispatch hash table in the
1613      tokenizer.
1614
1615     -perltidy -html will check to see if HTML::Entities is
1616      installed, and if so, it will use it to encode unsafe
1617      characters.
1618
1619     -Added flag -oext=ext to change the output file extension to
1620      be different from the default ('tdy' or 'html').  For
1621      example:
1622
1623        perltidy -html -oext=htm filename
1624
1625     will produce filename.htm
1626
1627     -Added flag -cscw to issue warnings if a closing side comment would replace
1628     an existing, different side comments.  See the man page for details.
1629     Thanks to Peter Masiar for helpful discussions.
1630
1631     -Corrected tokenization error of signed hex/octal/binary numbers. For
1632     example, the first hex number below would have been parsed correctly
1633     but the second one was not:
1634        if ( ( $tmp >= 0x80_00_00 ) || ( $tmp < -0x80_00_00 ) ) { }
1635
1636     -'**=' was incorrectly tokenized as '**' and '='.  This only
1637         caused a problem with the -extrude opton.
1638
1639     -Corrected a divide by zero when -extrude option is used
1640
1641     -The flag -w will now contain all errors reported by 'perl -c' on the
1642     input file, but otherwise they are not reported.  The reason is that
1643     perl will report lots of problems and syntax errors which are not of
1644     interest when only a small snippet is being formatted (such as missing
1645     modules and unknown bare words).  Perltidy will always report all
1646     significant syntax errors that it finds, such as unbalanced braces,
1647     unless the -q (quiet) flag is set.
1648
1649     -Merged modifications created by Hugh Myers into perltidy.
1650      These include a 'streamhandle' routine which allows perltidy
1651      as a module to operate on input and output arrays and strings
1652      in addition to files.  Documentation and new packaging as a
1653      module should be ready early next year; This is an elegant,
1654      powerful update; many thanks to Hugh for contributing it.
1655
1656  2001 11 28
1657     -added a tentative patch which tries to keep any existing breakpoints
1658     at lines with leading keywords map,sort,eval,grep. The idea is to
1659     improve formatting of sequences of list operations, as in a schwartzian
1660     transform.  Example:
1661
1662        INPUT:
1663        my @sorted = map { $_->[0] }
1664                     sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
1665                     map { [ $_, rand ] } @list;
1666
1667        OLD:
1668        my @sorted =
1669          map { $_->[0] } sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map { [ $_, rand ] } @list;
1670
1671        NEW:
1672        my @sorted = map { $_->[0] }
1673          sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
1674          map { [ $_, rand ] } @list;
1675
1676      The new alignment is not as nice as the input, but this is an improvement.
1677      Thanks to Yves Orton for this suggestion.
1678
1679     -modified indentation logic so that a line with leading opening paren,
1680     brace, or square bracket will never have less indentation than the
1681     line with the corresponding opening token.  Here's a simple example:
1682
1683        OLD:
1684            $mw->Button(
1685                -text    => "New Document",
1686                -command => \&new_document
1687              )->pack(
1688                -side   => 'bottom',
1689                -anchor => 'e'
1690            );
1691
1692        Note how the closing ');' is lined up with the first line, even
1693        though it closes a paren in the 'pack' line.  That seems wrong.
1694 
1695        NEW:
1696            $mw->Button(
1697                -text    => "New Document",
1698                -command => \&new_document
1699              )->pack(
1700                -side   => 'bottom',
1701                -anchor => 'e'
1702              );
1703
1704       This seems nicer: you can up-arrow with an editor and arrive at the
1705       opening 'pack' line.
1706 
1707     -corrected minor glitch in which cuddled else (-ce) did not get applied
1708     to an 'unless' block, which should look like this:
1709
1710            unless ($test) {
1711
1712            } else {
1713
1714            }
1715
1716      Thanks to Jeremy Mates for reporting this.
1717
1718     -The man page has been reorganized to parameters easier to find.
1719 
1720     -Added check for multiple definitions of same subroutine.  It is easy
1721      to introduce this problem when cutting and pasting. Perl does not
1722      complain about it, but it can lead to disaster.
1723
1724     -The command -pro=filename  or -profile=filename may be used to specify a
1725      configuration file which will override the default name of .perltidyrc.
1726      There must not be a space on either side of the '=' sign.  I needed
1727      this to be able to easily test perltidy with a variety of different
1728      configuration files.
1729
1730     -Side comment alignment has been improved somewhat across frequent level
1731      changes, as in short if/else blocks.  Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg 
1732      for pointing out this problem.  For example:
1733    
1734        OLD:
1735        if ( ref $self ) {    # Called as a method
1736            $format = shift;
1737        }
1738        else {    # Regular procedure call
1739            $format = $self;
1740            undef $self;
1741        }
1742
1743        NEW:
1744        if ( ref $self ) {    # Called as a method
1745            $format = shift;
1746        }
1747        else {                # Regular procedure call
1748            $format = $self;
1749            undef $self;
1750        }
1751
1752     -New command -ssc (--static-side-comment) and related command allows
1753      side comments to be spaced close to preceding character.  This is
1754      useful for displaying commented code as side comments.
1755
1756     -New command -csc (--closing-side-comment) and several related
1757      commands allow comments to be added to (and deleted from) any or all
1758      closing block braces.  This can be useful if you have to maintain large
1759      programs, especially those that you didn't write.  See updated man page.
1760      Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.  For a simple example:
1761
1762            perltidy -csc
1763
1764            sub foo {
1765                if ( !defined( $_[0] ) ) {
1766                    print("Hello, World\n");
1767                }
1768                else {
1769                    print( $_[0], "\n" );
1770                }
1771            } ## end sub foo
1772
1773      This added '## end sub foo' to the closing brace.  
1774      To remove it, perltidy -ncsc.
1775
1776     -New commands -ola, for outdenting labels, and -okw, for outdenting
1777      selected control keywords, were implemented.  See the perltidy man
1778      page for details.  Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.
1779
1780     -Hanging side comment change: a comment will not be considered to be a
1781      hanging side comment if there is no leading whitespace on the line.
1782      This should improve the reliability of identifying hanging side comments.
1783      Thanks to Peter Masiar for this suggestion.
1784
1785     -Two new commands for outdenting, -olq (outdent-long-quotes) and -olc
1786      (outdent-long-comments), have been added.  The original -oll
1787      (outdent-long-lines) remains, and now is an abbreviation for -olq and -olc.
1788      The new default is just -olq.  This was necessary to avoid inconsistency with
1789      the new static block comment option.
1790
1791     -Static block comments:  to provide a way to display commented code
1792      better, the convention is used that comments with a leading '##' should
1793      not be formatted as usual.  Please see '-sbc' (or '--static-block-comment')
1794      for documentation.  It can be deactivated with with -nsbc, but
1795      should not normally be necessary. Thanks to Peter Masiar for this 
1796      suggestion.
1797
1798     -Two changes were made to help show structure of complex lists:
1799      (1) breakpoints are forced after every ',' in a list where any of
1800      the list items spans multiple lines, and
1801      (2) List items which span multiple lines now get continuation indentation.
1802
1803      The following example illustrates both of these points.  Many thanks to
1804      Wolfgang Weisselberg for this snippet and a discussion of it; this is a
1805      significant formatting improvement. Note how it is easier to see the call
1806      parameters in the NEW version:
1807
1808        OLD:
1809        assert( __LINE__, ( not defined $check )
1810            or ref $check
1811            or $check eq "new"
1812            or $check eq "old", "Error in parameters",
1813            defined $old_new ? ( ref $old_new ? ref $old_new : $old_new ) : "undef",
1814            defined $db_new  ? ( ref $db_new  ? ref $db_new  : $db_new )  : "undef",
1815            defined $old_db ? ( ref $old_db ? ref $old_db : $old_db ) : "undef" );
1816
1817        NEW: 
1818        assert(
1819            __LINE__,
1820            ( not defined $check )
1821              or ref $check
1822              or $check eq "new"
1823              or $check eq "old",
1824            "Error in parameters",
1825            defined $old_new ? ( ref $old_new ? ref $old_new : $old_new ) : "undef",
1826            defined $db_new  ? ( ref $db_new  ? ref $db_new  : $db_new )  : "undef",
1827            defined $old_db  ? ( ref $old_db  ? ref $old_db  : $old_db )  : "undef"
1828        );
1829
1830        Another example shows how this helps displaying lists:
1831
1832        OLD:
1833        %{ $self->{COMPONENTS} } = (
1834            fname =>
1835            { type => 'name', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 0 },
1836            street =>
1837            { type => 'road', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 2 },
1838        );
1839
1840        The structure is clearer with the added indentation:
1841    
1842        NEW:
1843        %{ $self->{COMPONENTS} } = (
1844            fname =>
1845              { type => 'name', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 0 },
1846            street =>
1847              { type => 'road', adj => 'yes', font => 'Helvetica', 'index' => 2 },
1848        );
1849
1850        -The structure of nested logical expressions is now displayed better.
1851        Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful discussions.  For example,
1852        note how the status of the final 'or' is displayed in the following:
1853
1854        OLD:
1855        return ( !null($op)
1856              and null( $op->sibling )
1857              and $op->ppaddr eq "pp_null"
1858              and class($op) eq "UNOP"
1859              and ( ( $op->first->ppaddr =~ /^pp_(and|or)$/
1860                and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq" )
1861                or ( $op->first->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq"
1862                    and not null $op->first->first->sibling
1863                    and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_unstack" ) ) );
1864
1865        NEW:
1866        return (
1867            !null($op)
1868              and null( $op->sibling )
1869              and $op->ppaddr eq "pp_null"
1870              and class($op) eq "UNOP"
1871              and (
1872                (
1873                    $op->first->ppaddr =~ /^pp_(and|or)$/
1874                    and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq"
1875                )
1876                or ( $op->first->ppaddr eq "pp_lineseq"
1877                    and not null $op->first->first->sibling
1878                    and $op->first->first->sibling->ppaddr eq "pp_unstack" )
1879              )
1880        );
1881
1882       -A break will always be put before a list item containing a comma-arrow.
1883       This will improve formatting of mixed lists of this form:
1884
1885            OLD:
1886            $c->create(
1887                'text', 225, 20, -text => 'A Simple Plot',
1888                -font => $font,
1889                -fill => 'brown'
1890            );
1891
1892            NEW:
1893            $c->create(
1894                'text', 225, 20,
1895                -text => 'A Simple Plot',
1896                -font => $font,
1897                -fill => 'brown'
1898            );
1899
1900      -For convenience, the command -dac (--delete-all-comments) now also
1901      deletes pod.  Likewise, -tac (--tee-all-comments) now also sends pod
1902      to a '.TEE' file.  Complete control over the treatment of pod and
1903      comments is still possible, as described in the updated help message 
1904      and man page.
1905
1906      -The logic which breaks open 'containers' has been rewritten to be completely
1907      symmetric in the following sense: if a line break is placed after an opening
1908      {, [, or (, then a break will be placed before the corresponding closing
1909      token.  Thus, a container either remains closed or is completely cracked
1910      open.
1911
1912      -Improved indentation of parenthesized lists.  For example, 
1913
1914                OLD:
1915                $GPSCompCourse =
1916                  int(
1917                  atan2( $GPSTempCompLong - $GPSLongitude,
1918                  $GPSLatitude - $GPSTempCompLat ) * 180 / 3.14159265 );
1919
1920                NEW:
1921                $GPSCompCourse = int(
1922                    atan2(
1923                        $GPSTempCompLong - $GPSLongitude,
1924                        $GPSLatitude - $GPSTempCompLat
1925                      ) * 180 / 3.14159265
1926                );
1927
1928       Further improvements will be made in future releases.
1929
1930      -Some improvements were made in formatting small lists.
1931
1932      -Correspondence between Input and Output line numbers reported in a 
1933       .LOG file should now be exact.  They were sometimes off due to the size
1934       of intermediate buffers.
1935
1936      -Corrected minor tokenization error in which a ';' in a foreach loop
1937       control was tokenized as a statement termination, which forced a 
1938       line break:
1939
1940            OLD:
1941            foreach ( $i = 0;
1942                $i <= 10;
1943                $i += 2
1944              )
1945            {
1946                print "$i ";
1947            }
1948
1949            NEW:
1950            foreach ( $i = 0 ; $i <= 10 ; $i += 2 ) {
1951                print "$i ";
1952            }
1953
1954      -Corrected a problem with reading config files, in which quote marks were not
1955       stripped.  As a result, something like -wba="&& . || " would have the leading
1956       quote attached to the && and not work correctly.  A workaround for older
1957       versions is to place a space around all tokens within the quotes, like this:
1958       -wba=" && . || "
1959
1960      -Removed any existing space between a label and its ':'
1961        OLD    : { }
1962        NEW: { }
1963       This was necessary because the label and its colon are a single token.
1964
1965      -Corrected tokenization error for the following (highly non-recommended) 
1966       construct:
1967        $user = @vars[1] / 100;
1968 
1969      -Resolved cause of a difference between perltidy under perl v5.6.1 and
1970      5.005_03; the problem was different behavior of \G regex position
1971      marker(!)
1972
1973  2001 10 20
1974     -Corrected a bug in which a break was not being made after a full-line
1975     comment within a short eval/sort/map/grep block.  A flag was not being
1976     zeroed.  The syntax error check catches this.  Here is a snippet which
1977     illustrates the bug:
1978
1979            eval {
1980                #open Socket to Dispatcher
1981                $sock = &OpenSocket;
1982            };
1983
1984     The formatter mistakenly thought that it had found the following 
1985     one-line block:
1986 
1987            eval {#open Socket to Dispatcher$sock = &OpenSocket; };
1988
1989     The patch fixes this. Many thanks to Henry Story for reporting this bug.
1990
1991     -Changes were made to help diagnose and resolve problems in a
1992     .perltidyrc file: 
1993       (1) processing of command parameters has been into two separate
1994       batches so that any errors in a .perltidyrc file can be localized.  
1995       (2) commands --help, --version, and as many of the --dump-xxx
1996       commands are handled immediately, without any command line processing
1997       at all.  
1998       (3) Perltidy will ignore any commands in the .perltidyrc file which
1999       cause immediate exit.  These are:  -h -v -ddf -dln -dop -dsn -dtt
2000       -dwls -dwrs -ss.  Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful
2001       suggestions regarding these updates.
2002
2003     -Syntax check has been reinstated as default for MSWin32 systems.  This
2004     way Windows 2000 users will get syntax check by default, which seems
2005     like a better idea, since the number of Win 95/98 systems will be
2006     decreasing over time.  Documentation revised to warn Windows 95/98
2007     users about the problem with empty '&1'.  Too bad these systems
2008     all report themselves as MSWin32.
2009
2010  2001 10 16
2011     -Fixed tokenization error in which a method call of the form
2012
2013        Module::->new();
2014 
2015      got a space before the '::' like this:
2016
2017        Module ::->new();
2018
2019      Thanks to David Holden for reporting this.
2020 
2021     -Added -html control over pod text, using a new abbreviation 'pd'.  See
2022     updated perl2web man page. The default is to use the color of a comment,
2023     but italicized.  Old .css style sheets will need a new line for
2024     .pd to use this.  The old color was the color of a string, and there
2025     was no control.  
2026 
2027     -.css lines are now printed in sorted order.
2028
2029     -Fixed interpolation problem where html files had '$input_file' as title
2030     instead of actual input file name.  Thanks to Simon Perreault for finding
2031     this and sending a patch, and also to Tobias Weber.
2032
2033     -Breaks will now have the ':' placed at the start of a line, 
2034     one per line by default because this shows logical structure
2035     more clearly. This coding has been completely redone. Some 
2036     examples of new ?/: formatting:
2037
2038           OLD:
2039                wantarray ? map( $dir::cwd->lookup($_)->path, @_ ) :
2040                  $dir::cwd->lookup( $_[0] )->path;
2041
2042           NEW:
2043                wantarray 
2044                  ? map( $dir::cwd->lookup($_)->path, @_ )
2045                  : $dir::cwd->lookup( $_[0] )->path;
2046
2047           OLD:
2048                    $a = ( $b > 0 ) ? {
2049                        a => 1,
2050                        b => 2
2051                    } : { a => 6, b => 8 };
2052
2053           NEW:
2054                    $a = ( $b > 0 )
2055                      ? {
2056                        a => 1,
2057                        b => 2
2058                      }
2059                      : { a => 6, b => 8 };
2060
2061        OLD: (-gnu):
2062        $self->note($self->{skip} ? "Hunk #$self->{hunk} ignored at 1.\n" :
2063                    "Hunk #$self->{hunk} failed--$@");
2064
2065        NEW: (-gnu):
2066        $self->note($self->{skip} 
2067                    ? "Hunk #$self->{hunk} ignored at 1.\n"
2068                    : "Hunk #$self->{hunk} failed--$@");
2069
2070        OLD:
2071            $which_search =
2072              $opts{"t"} ? 'title'   :
2073              $opts{"s"} ? 'subject' : $opts{"a"} ? 'author' : 'title';
2074
2075        NEW:
2076            $which_search =
2077              $opts{"t"} ? 'title'
2078              : $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
2079              : $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
2080              : 'title';
2081 
2082     You can use -wba=':' to recover the previous default which placed ':'
2083     at the end of a line.  Thanks to Michael Cartmell for helpful
2084     discussions and examples.  
2085
2086     -Tokenizer updated to do syntax checking for matched ?/: pairs.  Also,
2087     the tokenizer now outputs a unique serial number for every balanced
2088     pair of brace types and ?/: pairs.  This greatly simplifies the
2089     formatter.
2090
2091     -Long lines with repeated 'and', 'or', '&&', '||'  will now have
2092     one such item per line.  For example:
2093
2094        OLD:
2095            if ( $opt_d || $opt_m || $opt_p || $opt_t || $opt_x
2096                || ( -e $archive && $opt_r ) )
2097            {
2098                ( $pAr, $pNames ) = readAr($archive);
2099            }
2100
2101        NEW:
2102            if ( $opt_d
2103                || $opt_m
2104                || $opt_p
2105                || $opt_t
2106                || $opt_x
2107                || ( -e $archive && $opt_r ) )
2108            {
2109                ( $pAr, $pNames ) = readAr($archive);
2110            }
2111
2112       OLD:
2113            if ( $vp->{X0} + 4 <= $x && $vp->{X0} + $vp->{W} - 4 >= $x
2114                && $vp->{Y0} + 4 <= $y && $vp->{Y0} + $vp->{H} - 4 >= $y ) 
2115
2116       NEW:
2117            if ( $vp->{X0} + 4 <= $x
2118                && $vp->{X0} + $vp->{W} - 4 >= $x
2119                && $vp->{Y0} + 4 <= $y
2120                && $vp->{Y0} + $vp->{H} - 4 >= $y )
2121
2122     -Long lines with multiple concatenated tokens will have concatenated
2123     terms (see below) placed one per line, except for short items.  For
2124     example:
2125
2126       OLD:
2127            $report .=
2128              "Device type:" . $ib->family . "  ID:" . $ib->serial . "  CRC:"
2129              . $ib->crc . ": " . $ib->model() . "\n";
2130
2131       NEW:
2132            $report .= "Device type:"
2133              . $ib->family . "  ID:"
2134              . $ib->serial . "  CRC:"
2135              . $ib->model()
2136              . $ib->crc . ": " . "\n";
2137
2138     NOTE: at present 'short' means 8 characters or less.  There is a
2139     tentative flag to change this (-scl), but it is undocumented and
2140     is likely to be changed or removed later, so only use it for testing.  
2141     In the above example, the tokens "  ID:", "  CRC:", and "\n" are below
2142     this limit.  
2143
2144     -If a line which is short enough to fit on a single line was
2145     nevertheless broken in the input file at a 'good' location (see below), 
2146     perltidy will try to retain a break.  For example, the following line
2147     will be formatted as:
2148 
2149        open SUM, "<$file"
2150          or die "Cannot open $file ($!)";
2151 
2152     if it was broken in the input file, and like this if not:
2153
2154        open SUM, "<$file" or die "Cannot open $file ($!)";
2155
2156     GOOD: 'good' location means before 'and','or','if','unless','&&','||'
2157
2158     The reason perltidy does not just always break at these points is that if
2159     there are multiple, similar statements, this would preclude alignment.  So
2160     rather than check for this, perltidy just tries to follow the input style,
2161     in the hopes that the author made a good choice. Here is an example where 
2162     we might not want to break before each 'if':
2163
2164        ($Locale, @Locale) = ($English, @English) if (@English > @Locale);
2165        ($Locale, @Locale) = ($German,  @German)  if (@German > @Locale);
2166        ($Locale, @Locale) = ($French,  @French)  if (@French > @Locale);
2167        ($Locale, @Locale) = ($Spanish, @Spanish) if (@Spanish > @Locale);
2168
2169     -Added wildcard file expansion for systems with shells which lack this.
2170     Now 'perltidy *.pl' should work under MSDOS/Windows.  Thanks to Hugh Myers 
2171     for suggesting this.  This uses builtin glob() for now; I may change that.
2172
2173     -Added new flag -sbl which, if specified, overrides the value of -bl
2174     for opening sub braces.  This allows formatting of this type:
2175
2176     perltidy -sbl 
2177
2178     sub foo
2179     {
2180        if (!defined($_[0])) {
2181            print("Hello, World\n");
2182        }
2183        else {
2184            print($_[0], "\n");
2185        }
2186     }
2187     Requested by Don Alexander.
2188
2189     -Fixed minor parsing error which prevented a space after a $$ variable
2190     (pid) in some cases.  Thanks to Michael Cartmell for noting this.
2191     For example, 
2192       old: $$< 700 
2193       new: $$ < 700
2194
2195     -Improved line break choices 'and' and 'or' to display logic better.
2196     For example:
2197
2198        OLD:
2199            exists $self->{'build_dir'} and push @e,
2200              "Unwrapped into directory $self->{'build_dir'}";
2201
2202        NEW:
2203            exists $self->{'build_dir'}
2204              and push @e, "Unwrapped into directory $self->{'build_dir'}";
2205
2206     -Fixed error of multiple use of abbreviatioin '-dsc'.  -dsc remains 
2207     abbreviation for delete-side-comments; -dsm is new abbreviation for 
2208     delete-semicolons.
2209
2210     -Corrected and updated 'usage' help routine.  Thanks to Slaven Rezic for 
2211     noting an error.
2212
2213     -The default for Windows is, for now, not to do a 'perl -c' syntax
2214     check (but -syn will activate it).  This is because of problems with
2215     command.com.  James Freeman sent me a patch which tries to get around
2216     the problems, and it works in many cases, but testing revealed several
2217     issues that still need to be resolved.  So for now, the default is no
2218     syntax check for Windows.
2219
2220     -I added a -T flag when doing perl -c syntax check.
2221     This is because I test it on a large number of scripts from sources
2222     unknown, and who knows what might be hidden in initialization blocks?
2223     Also, deactivated the syntax check if perltidy is run as root.  As a
2224     benign example, running the previous version of perltidy on the
2225     following file would cause it to disappear:
2226
2227            BEGIN{
2228                    print "Bye, bye baby!\n";
2229                    unlink $0;
2230            }
2231        
2232     The new version will not let that happen.
2233
2234     -I am contemplating (but have not yet implemented) making '-lp' the
2235     default indentation, because it is stable now and may be closer to how
2236     perl is commonly formatted.  This could be in the next release.  The
2237     reason that '-lp' was not the original default is that the coding for
2238     it was complex and not ready for the initial release of perltidy.  If
2239     anyone has any strong feelings about this, I'd like to hear.  The
2240     current default could always be recovered with the '-nlp' flag.
2241
2242  2001 09 03
2243     -html updates:
2244         - sub definition names are now specially colored, red by default.  
2245           The letter 'm' is used to identify them.
2246         - keyword 'sub' now has color of other keywords.
2247         - restored html keyword color to __END__ and __DATA__, which was 
2248           accidentally removed in the previous version.
2249
2250     -A new -se (--standard-error-output) flag has been implemented and
2251     documented which causes all errors to be written to standard output
2252     instead of a .ERR file.
2253
2254     -A new -w (--warning-output) flag has been implemented and documented
2255      which causes perltidy to output certain non-critical messages to the
2256      error output file, .ERR.  These include complaints about pod usage,
2257      for example.  The default is to not include these.
2258
2259      NOTE: This replaces an undocumented -w=0 or --warning-level flag
2260      which was tentatively introduced in the previous version to avoid some
2261      unwanted messages.  The new default is the same as the old -w=0, so
2262      that is no longer needed. 
2263
2264      -Improved syntax checking and corrected tokenization of functions such
2265      as rand, srand, sqrt, ...  These can accept either an operator or a term
2266      to their right.  This has been corrected.
2267 
2268     -Corrected tokenization of semicolon: testing of the previous update showed 
2269     that the semicolon in the following statement was being mis-tokenized.  That
2270     did no harm, other than adding an extra blank space, but has been corrected.
2271
2272              for (sort {strcoll($a,$b);} keys %investments) {
2273                 ...
2274              }
2275
2276     -New syntax check: after wasting 5 minutes trying to resolve a syntax
2277      error in which I had an extra terminal ';' in a complex for (;;) statement, 
2278      I spent a few more minutes adding a check for this in perltidy so it won't
2279      happen again.
2280
2281     -The behavior of --break-before-subs (-bbs) and --break-before-blocks
2282     (-bbb) has been modified.  Also, a new control parameter,
2283     --long-block-line-count=n (-lbl=n) has been introduced to give more
2284     control on -bbb.  This was previously a hardwired value.  The reason
2285     for the change is to reduce the number of unwanted blank lines that
2286     perltidy introduces, and make it less erratic.  It's annoying to remove
2287     an unwanted blank line and have perltidy put it back.  The goal is to
2288     be able to sprinkle a few blank lines in that dense script you
2289     inherited from Bubba.  I did a lot of experimenting with different
2290     schemes for introducing blank lines before and after code blocks, and
2291     decided that there is no really good way to do it.  But I think the new
2292     scheme is an improvement.  You can always deactivate this with -nbbb.
2293     I've been meaning to work on this; thanks to Erik Thaysen for bringing
2294     it to my attention.
2295
2296     -The .LOG file is seldom needed, and I get tired of deleting them, so
2297      they will now only be automatically saved if perltidy thinks that it
2298      made an error, which is almost never.  You can still force the logfile
2299      to be saved with -log or -g.
2300
2301     -Improved method for computing number of columns in a table.  The old
2302     method always tried for an even number.  The new method allows odd
2303     numbers when it is obvious that a list is not a hash initialization
2304     list.
2305
2306       old: my (
2307                 $name,       $xsargs, $parobjs, $optypes,
2308                 $hasp2child, $pmcode, $hdrcode, $inplacecode,
2309                 $globalnew,  $callcopy
2310              )
2311              = @_;
2312
2313       new: my (
2314                 $name,   $xsargs,  $parobjs,     $optypes,   $hasp2child,
2315                 $pmcode, $hdrcode, $inplacecode, $globalnew, $callcopy
2316              )
2317              = @_;
2318
2319     -I fiddled with the list threshold adjustment, and some small lists
2320     look better now.  Here is the change for one of the lists in test file
2321     'sparse.t':
2322     old:
2323       %units =
2324         ("in", "in", "pt", "pt", "pc", "pi", "mm", "mm", "cm", "cm", "\\hsize", "%",
2325           "\\vsize", "%", "\\textwidth", "%", "\\textheight", "%");
2326
2327     new:
2328       %units = (
2329                  "in",      "in", "pt",          "pt", "pc",           "pi",
2330                  "mm",      "mm", "cm",          "cm", "\\hsize",      "%",
2331                  "\\vsize", "%",  "\\textwidth", "%",  "\\textheight", "%"
2332                  );
2333
2334     -Improved -lp formatting at '=' sign.  A break was always being added after
2335     the '=' sign in a statement such as this, (to be sure there was enough room
2336     for the parameters):
2337
2338     old: my $fee =
2339            CalcReserveFee(
2340                            $env,          $borrnum,
2341                            $biblionumber, $constraint,
2342                            $bibitems
2343                            );
2344 
2345     The updated version doesn't do this unless the space is really needed:
2346
2347     new: my $fee = CalcReserveFee(
2348                                   $env,          $borrnum,
2349                                   $biblionumber, $constraint,
2350                                   $bibitems
2351                                   );
2352
2353     -I updated the tokenizer to allow $#+ and $#-, which seem to be new to
2354     Perl 5.6.  Some experimenting with a recent version of Perl indicated
2355     that it allows these non-alphanumeric '$#' array maximum index
2356     varaibles: $#: $#- $#+ so I updated the parser accordingly.  Only $#:
2357     seems to be valid in older versions of Perl.
2358
2359     -Fixed a rare formatting problem with -lp (and -gnu) which caused
2360     excessive indentation.
2361
2362     -Many additional syntax checks have been added.
2363
2364     -Revised method for testing here-doc target strings; the following
2365     was causing trouble with a regex test because of the '*' characters:
2366      print <<"*EOF*";
2367      bla bla
2368      *EOF*
2369     Perl seems to allow almost anything to be a here doc target, so an
2370     exact string comparison is now used.
2371
2372     -Made update to allow underscores in binary numbers, like '0b1100_0000'.
2373
2374     -Corrected problem with scanning certain module names; a blank space was 
2375     being inserted after 'warnings' in the following:
2376        use warnings::register;
2377     The problem was that warnings (and a couple of other key modules) were 
2378     being tokenized as keywords.  They should have just been identifiers.
2379
2380     -Corrected tokenization of indirect objects after sort, system, and exec,
2381     after testing produced an incorrect error message for the following
2382     line of code:
2383        print sort $sortsubref @list;
2384
2385     -Corrected minor problem where a line after a format had unwanted
2386     extra continuation indentation.  
2387
2388     -Delete-block-comments (and -dac) now retain any leading hash-bang line
2389
2390     -Update for -lp (and -gnu) to not align the leading '=' of a list
2391     with a previous '=', since this interferes with alignment of parameters.
2392
2393      old:  my $hireDay = new Date;
2394            my $self    = {
2395                         firstName => undef,
2396                         lastName  => undef,
2397                         hireDay   => $hireDay
2398                         };
2399    
2400      new:  my $hireDay = new Date;
2401            my $self = {
2402                         firstName => undef,
2403                         lastName  => undef,
2404                         hireDay   => $hireDay
2405                         };
2406
2407     -Modifications made to display tables more compactly when possible,
2408      without adding lines. For example,
2409      old:
2410                    '1', "I", '2', "II", '3', "III", '4', "IV",
2411                    '5', "V", '6', "VI", '7', "VII", '8', "VIII",
2412                    '9', "IX"
2413      new:
2414                    '1', "I",   '2', "II",   '3', "III",
2415                    '4', "IV",  '5', "V",    '6', "VI",
2416                    '7', "VII", '8', "VIII", '9', "IX"
2417
2418     -Corrected minor bug in which -pt=2 did not keep the right paren tight
2419     around a '++' or '--' token, like this:
2420
2421                for ($i = 0 ; $i < length $key ; $i++ )
2422
2423     The formatting for this should be, and now is: 
2424
2425                for ($i = 0 ; $i < length $key ; $i++)
2426
2427     Thanks to Erik Thaysen for noting this.
2428
2429     -Discovered a new bug involving here-docs during testing!  See BUGS.html.  
2430
2431     -Finally fixed parsing of subroutine attributes (A Perl 5.6 feature).
2432     However, the attributes and prototypes must still be on the same line
2433     as the sub name.
2434
2435  2001 07 31
2436     -Corrected minor, uncommon bug found during routine testing, in which a
2437     blank got inserted between a function name and its opening paren after
2438     a file test operator, but only in the case that the function had not
2439     been previously seen.  Perl uses the existence (or lack thereof) of 
2440     the blank to guess if it is a function call.  That is,
2441        if (-l pid_filename()) {
2442     became
2443        if (-l pid_filename ()) {
2444     which is a syntax error if pid_filename has not been seen by perl.
2445
2446     -If the AutoLoader module is used, perltidy will continue formatting
2447     code after seeing an __END__ line.  Use -nlal to deactivate this feature.  
2448     Likewise, if the SelfLoader module is used, perltidy will continue 
2449     formatting code after seeing a __DATA__ line.  Use -nlsl to
2450     deactivate this feature.  Thanks to Slaven Rezic for this suggestion.
2451
2452     -pod text after __END__ and __DATA__ is now identified by perltidy
2453     so that -dp works correctly.  Thanks to Slaven Rezic for this suggestion.
2454
2455     -The first $VERSION line which might be eval'd by MakeMaker
2456     is now passed through unchanged.  Use -npvl to deactivate this feature.
2457     Thanks to Manfred Winter for this suggestion.
2458
2459     -Improved indentation of nested parenthesized expressions.  Tests have
2460     given favorable results.  Thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg for helpful
2461     examples.
2462
2463  2001 07 23
2464     -Fixed a very rare problem in which an unwanted semicolon was inserted
2465     due to misidentification of anonymous hash reference curly as a code
2466     block curly.  (No instances of this have been reported; I discovered it
2467     during testing).  A workaround for older versions of perltidy is to use
2468     -nasc.
2469
2470     -Added -icb (-indent-closing-brace) parameter to indent a brace which
2471     terminates a code block to the same level as the previous line.
2472     Suggested by Andrew Cutler.  For example, 
2473
2474            if ($task) {
2475                yyy();
2476                }    # -icb
2477            else {
2478                zzz();
2479                }
2480
2481     -Rewrote error message triggered by an unknown bareword in a print or
2482     printf filehandle position, and added flag -w=0 to prevent issuing this
2483     error message.  Suggested by Byron Jones.
2484
2485     -Added modification to align a one-line 'if' block with similar
2486     following 'elsif' one-line blocks, like this:
2487          if    ( $something eq "simple" )  { &handle_simple }
2488          elsif ( $something eq "hard" )    { &handle_hard }
2489     (Suggested by  Wolfgang Weisselberg).
2490
2491  2001 07 02
2492     -Eliminated all constants with leading underscores because perl 5.005_03
2493     does not support that.  For example, _SPACES changed to XX_SPACES.
2494     Thanks to kromJx for this update.
2495
2496  2001 07 01
2497     -the directory of test files has been moved to a separate distribution
2498     file because it is getting large but is of little interest to most users.
2499     For the current distribution:
2500       perltidy-20010701.tgz        contains the source and docs for perltidy
2501       perltidy-20010701-test.tgz   contains the test files
2502
2503     -fixed bug where temporary file perltidy.TMPI was not being deleted 
2504     when input was from stdin.
2505
2506     -adjusted line break logic to not break after closing brace of an
2507     eval block (suggested by Boris Zentner).
2508
2509     -added flag -gnu (--gnu-style) to give an approximation to the GNU
2510     style as sometimes applied to perl.  The programming style in GNU
2511     'automake' was used as a guide in setting the parameters; these
2512     parameters will probably be adjusted over time.
2513
2514     -an empty code block now has one space for emphasis:
2515       if ( $cmd eq "bg_untested" ) {}    # old
2516       if ( $cmd eq "bg_untested" ) { }   # new
2517     If this bothers anyone, we could create a parameter.
2518
2519     -the -bt (--brace-tightness) parameter has been split into two
2520     parameters to give more control. -bt now applies only to non-BLOCK
2521     braces, while a new parameter -bbt (block-brace-tightness) applies to
2522     curly braces which contain code BLOCKS. The default value is -bbt=0.
2523
2524     -added flag -icp (--indent-closing-paren) which leaves a statement
2525     termination of the form );, };, or ]; indented with the same
2526     indentation as the previous line.  For example,
2527
2528        @month_of_year = (          # default, or -nicp
2529            'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct',
2530            'Nov', 'Dec'
2531        );
2532
2533        @month_of_year = (          # -icp
2534            'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct',
2535            'Nov', 'Dec'
2536            );
2537
2538     -Vertical alignment updated to synchronize with tokens &&, ||,
2539     and, or, if, unless.  Allowable space before forcing
2540     resynchronization has been increased.  (Suggested by  Wolfgang
2541     Weisselberg).
2542
2543     -html corrected to use -nohtml-bold-xxxxxxx or -nhbx to negate bold,
2544     and likewise -nohtml-italic-xxxxxxx or -nhbi to negate italic.  There
2545     was no way to negate these previously.  html documentation updated and
2546     corrected.  (Suggested by  Wolfgang Weisselberg).
2547
2548     -Some modifications have been made which improve the -lp formatting in
2549     a few cases.
2550
2551     -Perltidy now retains or creates a blank line after an =cut to keep
2552     podchecker happy (Suggested by Manfred H. Winter).  This appears to be
2553     a glitch in podchecker, but it was annoying.
2554
2555  2001 06 17
2556     -Added -bli flag to give continuation indentation to braces, like this
2557
2558            if ($bli_flag)
2559              {
2560                extra_indentation();
2561              }
2562
2563     -Corrected an error with the tab (-t) option which caused the last line
2564     of a multi-line quote to receive a leading tab.  This error was in
2565     version 2001 06 08  but not 2001 04 06.  If you formatted a script
2566     with -t with this version, please check it by running once with the
2567     -chk flag and perltidy will scan for this possible error.
2568
2569     -Corrected an invalid pattern (\R should have been just R), changed
2570     $^W =1 to BEGIN {$^W=1} to use warnings in compile phase, and corrected
2571     several unnecessary 'my' declarations. Many thanks to Wolfgang Weisselberg,
2572     2001-06-12, for catching these errors.
2573 
2574     -A '-bar' flag has been added to require braces to always be on the
2575     right, even for multi-line if and foreach statements.  For example,
2576     the default formatting of a long if statement would be:
2577
2578            if ($bigwasteofspace1 && $bigwasteofspace2
2579              || $bigwasteofspace3 && $bigwasteofspace4)
2580            {
2581                bigwastoftime();
2582            }
2583
2584     With -bar, the formatting is:
2585
2586            if ($bigwasteofspace1 && $bigwasteofspace2
2587              || $bigwasteofspace3 && $bigwasteofspace4) {
2588                bigwastoftime();
2589            }
2590     Suggested by Eli Fidler 2001-06-11.
2591
2592     -Uploaded perltidy to sourceforge cvs 2001-06-10.
2593
2594     -An '-lp' flag (--line-up-parentheses) has been added which causes lists
2595     to be indented with extra indentation in the manner sometimes
2596     associated with emacs or the GNU suggestions.  Thanks to Ian Stuart for
2597     this suggestion and for extensive help in testing it. 
2598
2599     -Subroutine call parameter lists are now formatted as other lists.
2600     This should improve formatting of tables being passed via subroutine
2601     calls.  This will also cause full indentation ('-i=n, default n= 4) of
2602     continued parameter list lines rather than just the number of spaces
2603     given with -ci=n, default n=2.
2604 
2605     -Added support for hanging side comments.  Perltidy identifies a hanging
2606     side comment as a comment immediately following a line with a side
2607     comment or another hanging side comment.  This should work in most
2608     cases.  It can be deactivated with --no-hanging-side-comments (-nhsc).
2609     The manual has been updated to discuss this.  Suggested by Brad
2610     Eisenberg some time ago, and finally implemented.
2611
2612  2001 06 08
2613     -fixed problem with parsing command parameters containing quoted
2614     strings in .perltidyrc files. (Reported by Roger Espel Llima 2001-06-07).
2615
2616     -added two command line flags, --want-break-after and 
2617     --want-break-before, which allow changing whether perltidy
2618     breaks lines before or after any operators.  Please see the revised 
2619     man pages for details.
2620
2621     -added system-wide configuration file capability.
2622     If perltidy does not find a .perltidyrc command line file in
2623     the current directory, nor in the home directory, it now looks
2624     for '/usr/local/etc/perltidyrc' and then for '/etc/perltidyrc'.
2625     (Suggested by Roger Espel Llima 2001-05-31).
2626
2627     -fixed problem in which spaces were trimmed from lines of a multi-line
2628     quote. (Reported by Roger Espel Llima 2001-05-30).  This is an 
2629     uncommon situation, but serious, because it could conceivably change
2630     the proper function of a script.
2631
2632     -fixed problem in which a semicolon was incorrectly added within 
2633     an anonymous hash.  (Reported by A.C. Yardley, 2001-5-23).
2634     (You would know if this happened, because perl would give a syntax
2635     error for the resulting script).
2636
2637     -fixed problem in which an incorrect error message was produced
2638      after a version number on a 'use' line, like this ( Reported 
2639      by Andres Kroonmaa, 2001-5-14):
2640
2641                  use CGI 2.42 qw(fatalsToBrowser);
2642
2643      Other than the extraneous error message, this bug was harmless.
2644
2645  2001 04 06
2646     -fixed serious bug in which the last line of some multi-line quotes or
2647      patterns was given continuation indentation spaces.  This may make
2648      a pattern incorrect unless it uses the /x modifier.  To find
2649      instances of this error in scripts which have been formatted with
2650      earlier versions of perltidy, run with the -chk flag, which has
2651      been added for this purpose (SLH, 2001-04-05).
2652
2653      ** So, please check previously formatted scripts by running with -chk
2654      at least once **
2655
2656     -continuation indentation has been reprogrammed to be hierarchical, 
2657      which improves deeply nested structures.
2658
2659     -fixed problem with undefined value in list formatting (reported by Michael
2660      Langner 2001-04-05)
2661
2662     -Switched to graphical display of nesting in .LOG files.  If an
2663      old format string was "(1 [0 {2", the new string is "{{(".  This
2664      is easier to read and also shows the order of nesting.
2665
2666     -added outdenting of cuddled paren structures, like  ")->pack(".
2667
2668     -added line break and outdenting of ')->' so that instead of
2669
2670            $mw->Label(
2671              -text   => "perltidy",
2672              -relief => 'ridge')->pack;
2673 
2674      the current default is:
2675
2676            $mw->Label(
2677              -text   => "perltidy",
2678              -relief => 'ridge'
2679            )->pack;
2680
2681      (requested by Michael Langner 2001-03-31; in the future this could 
2682      be controlled by a command-line parameter).
2683
2684     -revised list indentation logic, so that lists following an assignment
2685      operator get one full indentation level, rather than just continuation 
2686      indentation.  Also corrected some minor glitches in the continuation 
2687      indentation logic. 
2688
2689     -Fixed problem with unwanted continuation indentation after a blank line 
2690     (reported by Erik Thaysen 2001-03-28):
2691
2692     -minor update to avoid stranding a single '(' on one line
2693
2694  2001 03 28:
2695     -corrected serious error tokenizing filehandles, in which a sub call 
2696     after a print or printf, like this:
2697        print usage() and exit;
2698     became this:
2699        print usage () and exit;
2700     Unfortunately, this converts 'usage' to a filehandle.  To fix this, rerun
2701     perltidy; it will look for this situation and issue a warning. 
2702
2703     -fixed another cuddled-else formatting bug (Reported by Craig Bourne)
2704
2705     -added several diagnostic --dump routines
2706 
2707     -added token-level whitespace controls (suggested by Hans Ecke)
2708
2709  2001 03 23:
2710     -added support for special variables of the form ${^WANT_BITS}
2711
2712     -space added between scalar and left paren in 'for' and 'foreach' loops,
2713      (suggestion by Michael Cartmell):
2714
2715        for $i( 1 .. 20 )   # old
2716        for $i ( 1 .. 20 )   # new
2717
2718     -html now outputs cascading style sheets (thanks to suggestion from
2719      Hans Ecke)
2720
2721     -flags -o and -st now work with -html
2722
2723     -added missing -html documentation for comments (noted by Alex Izvorski)
2724
2725     -support for VMS added (thanks to Michael Cartmell for code patches and 
2726       testing)
2727
2728     -v-strings implemented (noted by Hans Ecke and Michael Cartmell; extensive
2729       testing by Michael Cartmell)
2730
2731     -fixed problem where operand may be empty at line 3970 
2732      (\b should be just b in lines 3970, 3973) (Thanks to Erik Thaysen, 
2733      Keith Marshall for bug reports)
2734
2735     -fixed -ce bug (cuddled else), where lines like '} else {' were indented
2736      (Thanks to Shawn Stepper and Rick Measham for reporting this)
2737
2738  2001 03 04:
2739     -fixed undefined value in line 153 (only worked with -I set)
2740     (Thanks to Mike Stok, Phantom of the Opcodes, Ian Ehrenwald, and others)
2741
2742     -fixed undefined value in line 1069 (filehandle problem with perl versions <
2743     5.6) (Thanks to Yuri Leikind, Mike Stok, Michael Holve, Jeff Kolber)
2744
2745  2001 03 03:
2746     -Initial announcement at freshmeat.net; started Change Log
2747     (Unfortunately this version was DOA, but it was fixed the next day)
2748
2749