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Changes for version 9.017

  • Tests:
  • Travis-ci integration https://travis-ci.org/fglock/Perlito added by fredericorecsky
  • Java:
  • closure fixes: captured variables in for-loop; context
  • implement return followed by comma-separated list
  • new API to call Perl from Java
  • new API to extend Java classes using Perl
  • new API to access Java value types
  • internal integer number representation is now "long"
  • bless() and initial method call implementation (work in progress) by Bruno Czekay
  • generated code has a smaller diff between runs - github bug #39
  • regex: implemented string match in list context
  • regex: space in character classes is significant when /x is active - bug #40
  • regex: string replace preserves escape character - bug #41

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