of this version of Perl therefore refers to "layers" rather than to
"disciplines". Now back to the regularly scheduled documentation...>
-To mark FILEHANDLE as UTF-8, use C<:utf8>.
+To mark FILEHANDLE as UTF-8, use C<:utf8> or C<:encoding(utf8)>.
+C<:utf8> just marks the data as UTF-8 without further checking,
+while C<:encoding(utf8)> checks the data for actually being valid
+UTF-8. More details can be found in L<PerlIO::encoding>.
In general, binmode() should be called after open() but before any I/O
is done on the filehandle. Calling binmode() will normally flush any
VERSION may be either a numeric argument such as 5.006, which will be
compared to C<$]>, or a literal of the form v5.6.1, which will be compared
-to C<$^V> (aka $PERL_VERSION. A fatal error is produced if VERSION is
+to C<$^V> (aka $PERL_VERSION). A fatal error is produced if VERSION is
greater than the version of the current Perl interpreter; Perl will not
attempt to parse the rest of the file. Compare with L</require>, which can
do a similar check at run time.
C<use>ing library modules that have changed in incompatible ways from
older versions of Perl. (We try not to do this more than we have to.)
+If the specified perl version is greater than or equal to 5.9.5, C<use
+VERSION> will also load the C<feature> pragma and enable all features
+available in the requested version. See L<feature>.
+
The C<BEGIN> forces the C<require> and C<import> to happen at compile time. The
C<require> makes sure the module is loaded into memory if it hasn't been
yet. The C<import> is not a builtin--it's just an ordinary static method