=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>