[ID 20001025.011] [PATCH] t/io/open.t perl@7369[ 7350] breaks VMS perl

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

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 7c21f5f..72a2904 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ since it, in a way, falsely promised that the features could be used.
 
 =item *
 
+The (bogus) escape sequences \8 and \9 now give an optional warning
+("Unrecognized escape passed through").  There is no need to \-escape
+any C<\w> character.
+
+=item *
+
 lstat(FILEHANDLE) now gives a warning because the operation makes no sense.
 In future releases this may become a fatal error.
 
@@ -103,6 +109,10 @@ functionality, see pack('U0', ...) and pack('C0', ...).
 
 =item *
 
+Formats now support zero-padded decimal fields.
+
+=item *
+
 C<perl -d:Module=arg,arg,arg> now works (previously one couldn't pass
 in multiple arguments.)
 
@@ -125,6 +135,11 @@ C<pack('U0a*', ...)> can now be used to force a string to UTF8.
 
 =item *
 
+The printf and sprintf now support parameter reordering using the
+C<%\d+\$> and C<*\d+\$> syntaxes.
+
+=item *
+
 prototype(\&) is now available.
 
 =item *
@@ -376,6 +391,12 @@ $Config{byteorder} is now computed dynamically (this is more robust
 with "fat binaries" where an executable image contains binaries for
 more than one binary platform.)
 
+=item *
+
+Configure no longer included the DBM libraries (dbm, gdbm, db, ndbm)
+when building the Perl binary. The only exception to this is SunOS 4.x,
+which needs them.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes