A mechanism for inlineable OP equivalents of XSUBs is a TODO.

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

diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod
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--- a/pod/perlhack.pod
+++ b/pod/perlhack.pod
@@ -321,12 +321,10 @@ might start to make sense - don't worry if it doesn't yet, because the
 best way to study it is to read it in conjunction with poking at Perl
 source, and we'll do that later on.
 
-Gisle Aas's illustrated perlguts (also known as I<illguts>) is wonderful,
-although a little out of date with regard to some size details; the
-various SV structures have since been reworked for smaller memory footprint.
-The fundamentals are right however, and the pictures are very helpful.
+Gisle Aas's "illustrated perlguts", also known as I<illguts>, has very
+helpful pictures:
 
-L<http://www.perl.org/tpc/1998/Perl_Language_and_Modules/Perl%20Illustrated/>
+L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/illguts/>
 
 =item L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>
 
@@ -393,17 +391,29 @@ the documentation to the modules in core.
 
 =item Configure
 
-The configure process is the way we make Perl portable across the
+The Configure process is the way we make Perl portable across the
 myriad of operating systems it supports. Responsibility for the
-configure, build and installation process, as well as the overall
-portability of the core code rests with the configure pumpkin - others
-help out with individual operating systems.
+Configure, build and installation process, as well as the overall
+portability of the core code rests with the Configure pumpkin -
+others help out with individual operating systems.
+
+The three files that fall under his/her resposibility are Configure,
+config_h.SH, and Porting/Glossary (and a whole bunch of small related
+files that are less important here). The Configure pumpkin decides how
+patches to these are dealt with. Currently, the Configure pumpkin will
+accept patches in most common formats, even directly to these files.
+Other committers are allowed to commit to these files under the strict
+condition that they will inform the Configure pumpkin, either on IRC
+(if he/she happens to be around) or through (personal) e-mail.
 
 The files involved are the operating system directories, (F<win32/>,
 F<os2/>, F<vms/> and so on) the shell scripts which generate F<config.h>
 and F<Makefile>, as well as the metaconfig files which generate
 F<Configure>. (metaconfig isn't included in the core distribution.)
 
+See http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README for a
+description of the full process involved.
+
 =item Interpreter
 
 And of course, there's the core of the Perl interpreter itself. Let's
@@ -2366,7 +2376,7 @@ ASCII is a 7 bit encoding, but bytes have 8 bits in them.  The 128 extra
 characters have different meanings depending on the locale.  Absent a locale,
 currently these extra characters are generally considered to be unassigned,
 and this has presented some problems.
-This is scheduled to be changed in 5.12 so that these characters will
+This is being changed starting in 5.12 so that these characters will
 be considered to be Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1).
 
 =item *