Note that suidperl is neither built nor installed by default in
any recent version of perl. Use of suidperl is highly discouraged.
If you think you need it, try alternatives such as sudo first.
-See http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/.
+See http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ .
=head2 Core bug fixes
=head2 Documentation
-README.aix, README.solaris and README.macos have been added. README.posix-bc
-has been renamed to README.bs2000. These are installed as L<perlaix>,
-L<perlsolaris>, L<perlmacos>, and L<perlbs2000> respectively.
+README.aix, README.solaris and README.macos have been added.
+README.posix-bc has been renamed to README.bs2000. These are
+installed as L<perlaix>, L<perlsolaris>, L<perlmacos>, and
+L<perlbs2000> respectively.
The following pod documents are brand new:
Long doubles should now work under Linux.
-MacOS Classic is now supported in the mainstream source package.
+Mac OS Classic is now supported in the mainstream source package.
See README.macos.
Support for MPE/iX has been updated. See README.mpeix.
that with a C<use attrs> pragma in the body of the subroutine.
That can now be accomplished with declaration syntax, like this:
- sub mymethod : locked method ;
+ sub mymethod : locked method;
...
sub mymethod : locked method {
...
}
- sub othermethod :locked :method ;
+ sub othermethod :locked :method;
...
sub othermethod :locked :method {
...
See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/at-error.html for more details
about the history here.
+=head2 @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex submatches
+
+The new magic variables @- and @+ provide the starting and ending
+offsets, respectively, of $&, $1, $2, etc. See L<perlvar> for
+details.
+
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=head2 Modules
=item B
The Perl Compiler suite has been extensively reworked for this
-release. More of the standard Perl testsuite passes when run
+release. More of the standard Perl test suite passes when run
under the Compiler, but there is still a significant way to
go to achieve production quality compiled executables.
=over
-=item
+=item *
64-bit builds
Note that 64-bit support is still experimental.
-=item
+=item *
Failure of Thread tests
not new failures--Perl 5.005_0x has the same bugs, but didn't have these
tests. (Note that support for 5.005-style threading remains experimental.)
-=item
+=item *
NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
a month starting from zero, which, while being logical to programmers,
will cause the subtests 19 to 27 of the lib/posix test may fail.
-=item
+=item *
Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with gcc
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/, the Perl
+There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/ , the Perl
Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>