(Pure Perl modules should continue to work.)
-The major reason for the discontinity is the new IO architecture
+The major reason for the discontinuity is the new IO architecture
called PerlIO. PerlIO is the default configuration because
without it many new features of Perl 5.8 cannot be used. In other
words: you just have to recompile your modules, sorry about that.
=item *
+POSIX::sleep() now returns the number of I<unslept> seconds
+(as the POSIX standard says), as opposed to CORE::sleep() which
+returns the number of slept seconds.
+
+=item *
+
The printf() and sprintf() now support parameter reordering using the
C<%\d+\$> and C<*\d+\$> syntaxes. For example
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
-datastructures. Storable was created by Raphael Manfredi but it is
-now maintained by the Perl development team. Storable has been
+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
restricted hashes. See L<Storable>.
=item *
C<*foo{FORMAT}> now works.
+
=item *
Infinity is now recognized as a number.
=back
-=head2 Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
-
-One cannot call Perl using the C<volume:> syntax, that is, C<perl -v>
-works, but for example C<bin:perl -v> doesn't. The exact reason isn't
-known but the current suspect is the F<ixemul> library.
-
=head2 ext/threads/t/libc
If this test fails, it indicates that your libc (C library) is not
14.5.0 and GNU C++/GNU Tools 2.0.1, all attempted tests either
pass or result in TODO (ignored) failures.
+=head Term::ReadKey not working on Win32
+
+Use Term::ReadKey 2.20 or later.
+
=head2 Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests
B<Note that support for 5.005-style threading is deprecated,
=head2 UNICOS
- Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ../lib/Math/Trig.t 26 1 3.85% 25
- ../lib/warnings.t 460 1 0.22% 425
- op/numconvert.t 1440 13 0.90% 208 509-510
- 657-658 665-666 829-830 989-990 1149-1150
+ ../ext/Socket/socketpair.t 1 256 45 1 2.22% 12
+ ../ext/Storable/t/downgrade.t 92 23552 59 6 10.17% 144-147
+ 150-151
+ ../lib/Math/Trig.t 26 1 3.85% 25
+ ../lib/warnings.t 470 1 0.21% 429
+ op/numconvert.t 1440 13 0.90% 208 509-510
+ 657-658 665-666 829-830 989-990 1149-1150
The Trig and numconvert failures are caused by the slighly differing
(from IEEE) floating point implementation of UNICOS. The warnings
Though mostly working, Unicode support still has problem spots on
EBCDIC platforms. One such known spot are the C<\p{}> and C<\P{}>
regular expression constructs for code points less than 256: the
-pP are testing for Unicode code points, not knowing about EBCDIC.
+C<pP> are testing for Unicode code points, not knowing about EBCDIC.
-=head2 The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+=head2 The Compiler Suite Is Still Very Experimental
The compiler suite is slowly getting better but it continues to be
highly experimental. Use in production environments is discouraged.
core module. It is still a useful module, though, and is available
from the CPAN.
+Perl 5.8 unfortunately does not build anymore on AmigaOS,
+this broke at some point accidentally. Since there are not that many
+Amiga developers available, we could not get this fixed and tested in
+time for 5.8.0.
+
=head1 Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
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