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1 | =head1 NAME |
| 2 | |
| 3 | perldelta - what's new for perl v5.8.0 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| 6 | |
| 7 | This document describes differences between the 5.6 release and this one. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | =head1 Core Enhancements |
| 10 | |
| 11 | =head1 Modules and Pragmata |
| 12 | |
| 13 | =head1 Utility Changes |
| 14 | |
| 15 | =head1 Improved Documentation |
| 16 | |
| 17 | =head1 Performance enhancements |
| 18 | |
| 19 | =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements |
| 20 | |
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21 | =head2 gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working |
| 22 | |
| 23 | In many platforms the vendor-supplied 'cc' is too stripped-down to |
| 24 | build Perl (basically, the 'cc' doesn't do ANSI C). If this seems |
| 25 | to be the case and the 'cc' does not seem to be the GNU C compiler |
| 26 | 'gcc', an automatic attempt is made to find and use 'gcc' instead. |
| 27 | |
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28 | =head1 Platform specific changes |
| 29 | |
| 30 | =head1 Significant bug fixes |
| 31 | |
| 32 | =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics |
| 33 | |
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34 | =over 4 |
| 35 | |
| 36 | =item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?) |
| 37 | |
| 38 | (F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message |
| 39 | "Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"". It often means |
| 40 | that a method requires a package that has not been loaded. |
| 41 | |
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42 | =item Ambiguous range in transliteration operator |
| 43 | |
| 44 | (F) You wrote something like C<tr/a-z-0//> which doesn't mean anything at |
| 45 | all. To include a C<-> character in a transliteration, put it either |
| 46 | first or last. (In the past, C<tr/a-z-0//> was synonymous with |
| 47 | C<tr/a-y//>, which was probably not what you would have expected.) |
| 48 | |
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49 | =back |
| 50 | |
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51 | =head1 New tests |
| 52 | |
| 53 | =head1 Incompatible Changes |
| 54 | |
| 55 | =head1 Known Problems |
| 56 | |
| 57 | =head1 Obsolete Diagnostics |
| 58 | |
| 59 | =head1 Reporting Bugs |
| 60 | |
| 61 | If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the |
| 62 | articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. |
| 63 | There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl |
| 64 | Home Page. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> |
| 67 | program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down |
| 68 | to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the |
| 69 | output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.com to be |
| 70 | analysed by the Perl porting team. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
| 73 | |
| 74 | The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | The F<README> file for general stuff. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | =head1 HISTORY |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Written by Gurusamy Sarathy <F<gsar@activestate.com>>, with many |
| 85 | contributions from The Perl Porters. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.com>>. |
| 88 | |
| 89 | =cut |
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