Each of these is explained in further detail below.
-B<NOTE>: starting from the release 5.6.0 Perl will use a version
+B<NOTE>: starting from the release 5.6.0, Perl will use a version
scheme where even-numbered subreleases (like 5.6) are stable
maintenance releases and odd-numbered subreleases (like 5.7) are
unstable development releases. Development releases should not be
=head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms
-Executive summary: in Perl 5.8 you should use the default "PerlIO"
+Executive summary: in Perl 5.8, you should use the default "PerlIO"
as the IO mechanism unless you have a good reason not to.
In more detail: previous versions of perl used the standard IO
mechanisms as defined in stdio.h. Versions 5.003_02 and later of perl
-introuced alternate IO mechanisms via a "PerlIO" abstraction, but up
-until and including Perl 5.6 stdio mechanism was still the default and
-the only supported mechanism.
+introduced alternate IO mechanisms via a "PerlIO" abstraction, but up
+until and including Perl 5.6, the stdio mechanism was still the default
+and the only supported mechanism.
-Starting from Perl 5.8 the default mechanism is to use the PerlIO
+Starting from Perl 5.8, the default mechanism is to use the PerlIO
abstraction, because it allows better control of I/O mechanisms,
instead of having to work with (often, work around) vendors' I/O
implementations.
-This PerlIO abstraction can be disabled (but again, unless you know
-what you are doing, should not) either on the Configure command line
-with
+This PerlIO abstraction can be (but again, unless you know what you
+are doing, should not be) disabled either on the Configure command
+line with
sh Configure -Uuseperlio