=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what's new for perl v5.8.0
+perldelta - what will be new for perl v5.8.0
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This document describes differences between the 5.6 release and this one.
-
-=head1 Core Enhancements
-
-=head1 Modules and Pragmata
-
-=head1 Utility Changes
-
-=head1 Improved Documentation
-
-=head1 Performance enhancements
-
-=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
-
-=head2 gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
-
-In many platforms the vendor-supplied 'cc' is too stripped-down to
-build Perl (basically, the 'cc' doesn't do ANSI C). If this seems
-to be the case and the 'cc' does not seem to be the GNU C compiler
-'gcc', an automatic attempt is made to find and use 'gcc' instead.
-
-=head1 Platform specific changes
-
-=head2 printf() and sprintf() give two-digit exponent where possible
-
-Perl's printf() and sprintf() use the standard C library sprintf()
-function to implement the floating point conversions provided by the
-C<%e>, C<%f> and C<%g> formats (and their upper-case counterparts). C
-library sprintf() functions vary in the number of exponent digits that
-they produce in scientific notation when the modulus of the exponent
-is less than one hundred: most platforms give two digits (for example,
-C<1.234e-45>) while others, notably Microsoft's libraries for Windows,
-give three (as in C<1.234e-045>). Previously, Perl's functions
-produced results identical to the platform's underlying library
-function, resulting in script portability problems. Now, on all
-platforms, only two exponent digits are delivered unless more are
-needed.
-
-Note that this change applies only to explicit conversions made by
-printf() and sprintf(); implicit conversions still show the same
-behavior as the underlying library function:
-
- print "native: ", 1234567e89, sprintf("; standardized: %e\n", 1234567e89)
-
-outputs
-
- native: 1.234567e+95; standardized: 1.234567e+95
-
-on most platforms, and
-
- native: 1.234567e+095; standardized: 1.234567e+95
-
-on the remainder.
-
-=head1 Significant bug fixes
-
-=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
-
-=over 4
-
-=item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?)
-
-(F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message
-"Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"". It often means
-that a method requires a package that has not been loaded.
-
-=item Ambiguous range in transliteration operator
-
-(F) You wrote something like C<tr/a-z-0//> which doesn't mean anything at
-all. To include a C<-> character in a transliteration, put it either
-first or last. (In the past, C<tr/a-z-0//> was synonymous with
-C<tr/a-y//>, which was probably not what you would have expected.)
-
-=back
-
-=head1 New tests
-
-=head1 Incompatible Changes
-
-=head1 Known Problems
-
-=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics
+This document does not exist yet. When the Perl 5.8.0 is released
+this document will describe the changes since Perl 5.6.0, the previous
+major release. In the meanwhile, see L<perl570delta> and
+L<perl571delta>.
=head1 Reporting Bugs
-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/perl/, the Perl
-Home Page.
+If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
+recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
+bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be
+information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
-output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.com to be
+output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
analysed by the Perl porting team.
=head1 SEE ALSO
=head1 HISTORY
-Written by Gurusamy Sarathy <F<gsar@activestate.com>>, with many
-contributions from The Perl Porters.
-
-Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.com>>.
+Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
=cut
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