move the big AVAILABILITY list to perlport as Supported Platforms

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

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index e8db59e..711b87f 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ Natively 64-bit systems like Alpha and Cray need neither -Duse64bitint
 nor -Duse64bitall.
 
 Last but not least: note that due to Perl's habit of always using
-floating point numbers the quads are still not true integers.
+floating point numbers, the quads are still not true integers.
 When quads overflow their limits (0...18_446_744_073_709_551_615 unsigned,
 -9_223_372_036_854_775_808...9_223_372_036_854_775_807 signed), they
 are silently promoted to floating point numbers, after which they will
@@ -1160,6 +1160,19 @@ Unrecognized alphabetic escapes encountered when parsing quote
 constructs now generate a warning, since they may take on new
 semantics in later versions of Perl.
 
+Many diagnostics now report the internal operation in which the warning
+was provoked, like so:
+
+    Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at (eval 1) line 1.
+    Use of uninitialized value in print at (eval 1) line 1.
+
+Diagnostics  that occur within eval may also report the file and line
+number where the eval is located, in addition to the eval sequence
+number and the line number within the evaluated text itself.  For
+example:
+
+    Not enough arguments for scalar at (eval 4)[newlib/perl5db.pl:1411] line 2, at EOF
+
 =head1 Performance enhancements
 
 =head2 Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
@@ -2167,6 +2180,10 @@ corresponding bit of $^H as well.
 (F) Compile-time-substitutions (such as overloaded constants and
 character names) were not correctly set up.
 
+=item CORE::%s is not a keyword
+
+(F) The CORE:: namespace is reserved for Perl keywords.
+
 =item defined(@array) is deprecated
 
 (D) defined() is not usually useful on arrays because it checks for an