=head1 NAME

perldelta - what's new for perl v5.8.0

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.6 release and this one.

=head1 Core Enhancements

=head1 Modules and Pragmata

=head1 Utility Changes

=head1 Improved Documentation

=head1 Performance enhancements

=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements

=head2 gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working

In many platforms the vendor-supplied 'cc' is too stripped-down to
build Perl (basically, the 'cc' doesn't do ANSI C).  If this seems
to be the case and the 'cc' does not seem to be the GNU C compiler
'gcc', an automatic attempt is made to find and use 'gcc' instead.

=head1 Platform specific changes

=head1 Significant bug fixes

=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics

=over 4

=item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?)

(F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message
"Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"".  It often means
that a method requires a package that has not been loaded.

=item Ambiguous range in transliteration operator

(F) You wrote something like C<tr/a-z-0//> which doesn't mean anything at
all.  To include a C<-> character in a transliteration, put it either
first or last.  (In the past, C<tr/a-z-0//> was synonymous with
C<tr/a-y//>, which was probably not what you would have expected.)

=back

=head1 New tests

=head1 Incompatible Changes

=head1 Known Problems

=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics

=head1 Reporting Bugs

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the
articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.
There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl
Home Page.

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the
output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.com to be
analysed by the Perl porting team.

=head1 SEE ALSO

The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed.

The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.

The F<README> file for general stuff.

The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.

=head1 HISTORY

Written by Gurusamy Sarathy <F<gsar@activestate.com>>, with many
contributions from The Perl Porters.

Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.com>>.

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