=item *
-New Thread Implementation
+New IO Implementation
=item *
-Many New Modules
+New Thread Implementation
=item *
=item *
+Many New Modules
+
+=item *
+
More Extensive Regression Testing
=back
=item *
-The PerlIO C<:raw> discipline (as described in Camel III) is deprecated
-because its definition (as either the discipline version of C<binmode(FH)>
-or as the opposite of C<:crlf>) didn't really work: most importantly
-because turning off "clrfness" is not enough to make a stream truly
-binary. Instead of C<:raw> use one of the following: C<open(..., ':bytes')>,
-C<binmode(FH)>, C<sysopen()> + C<sysread()>.
+Previous versions of perl and some readings of some sections of Camel III
+implied that C<:raw> "discipline" was the inverse of C<:crlf>.
+Turning off "clrfness" is no longer enough to make a stream truly
+binary. So the PerlIO C<:raw> discipline is now formally defined as being
+equivalent to binmode(FH) - which is in turn defined as doing whatever
+is necessary to pass each byte as-is without any translation.
+In particular binmode(FH) - and hence C<:raw> - will now turn off both CRLF
+and UTF-8 translation and remove other "layers" (e.g. :encoding()) which
+would modify byte stream.
=item *
ugly, but the current implementation slows down normal array and hash
use quite noticeably. The C<fields> pragma interface will remain
available. The I<restricted hashes> interface is expected to
-be the replacement interface (see L<Hash::Util>).
+be the replacement interface (see L<Hash::Util>). If your existing
+programs depends on the underlying implementation, consider using
+L<Class::PseudoHash> from CPAN.
=item *
=item *
+If your platform supports fork(), you can use the list form of C<open>
+for pipes. For example:
+
+ open KID_PS, "-|", "ps", "aux" or die $!;
+
+forks the ps(1) command (without spawning a shell, as there are more
+than three arguments to open()), and reads its standard output via the
+C<KID_PS> filehandle. See L<perlipc>.
+
+=item *
+
File handles can be marked as accepting Perl's internal encoding of Unicode
(UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC depending on platform) by a pseudo layer ":utf8" :
C<Storable> gives persistence to Perl data structures by allowing the
storage and retrieval of Perl data to and from files in a fast and
compact binary format. Because in effect Storable does serialisation
-of Perl data structues, with it you can also clone deep, hierarchical
+of Perl data structures, with it you can also clone deep, hierarchical
datastructures. Storable was originally created by Raphael Manfredi,
but it is now maintained by Abhijit Menon-Sen. Storable has been
enhanced to understand the two new hash features, Unicode keys and
The arguments of WriteMakefile() in Makefile.PL are now checked
for sanity much more carefully than before. This may cause new
-warnings when modules are being insalled. See L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>
+warnings when modules are being installed. See L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>
for more details.
=item *
=item *
-The DYNIX/ptx platform (a.k.a. dynixptx) is supported at or near
-osvers 4.5.2.
+The DYNIX/ptx platform (also known as dynixptx) is supported at or
+near osvers 4.5.2.
=item *
./perl -Ilib ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t
+=head2 Unicode in package/class and subroutine names does not work
+
+One can have Unicode in identifier names, but not in package/class or
+subroutine names. While some limited functionality towards this does
+exist as of Perl 5.8.0, that is more accidental than designed; use of
+Unicode for the said purposes is unsupported.
+
+One reason of this unfinishedness is its (currently) inherent
+unportability: since both package names and subroutine names may
+need to be mapped to file and directory names, the Unicode capability
+of the filesystem becomes important-- and there unfortunately aren't
+portable answers.
+
=head2 UNICOS/mk
=over 4
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