[win32] various tweaks to makefiles

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perl.pod

diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index c7b8452..41481a3 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perl.pod
+++ b/pod/perl.pod
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ of sections:
     perlguts   Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
     perlcall   Perl calling conventions from C
 
+    perlhist   Perl history records
+
 (If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time,
 the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.)
 
@@ -242,6 +244,11 @@ See L<perlrun>.
 
 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles of other folks.
 
+If your Perl success stories and testimonials may be of help to others 
+who wish to advocate the use of Perl in their applications, 
+or if you wish to simply express your gratitude to Larry and the 
+Perl developers, please write to <F<perl-thanks@perl.org>>.
+
 =head1 FILES
 
  "/tmp/perl-e$$"       temporary file for -e commands
@@ -275,8 +282,8 @@ switch?
 The B<-w> switch is not mandatory.
 
 Perl is at the mercy of your machine's definitions of various
-operations such as type casting, atof(), and sprintf().  The latter
-can even trigger a core dump when passed ludicrous input values.
+operations such as type casting, atof(), and floating-point
+output with sprintf().
 
 If your stdio requires a seek or eof between reads and writes on a
 particular stream, so does Perl.  (This doesn't apply to sysread()