This value may or may not be accurate, but it certainly is
eye-catching. For some things perl5 is faster than perl4, but often
-the reliability and extensability have come at a cost of speed. The
+the reliability and extensibility have come at a cost of speed. The
benchmark suite that Gisle released earlier has been hailed as both a
fantastic solution and as a source of entirely meaningless figures.
Do we need to test "real applications"? Can you do so? Anyone have
=head1 Perl Language
-=head2 our ($var)
-
-Declare global variables (lexically or otherwise).
-
=head2 64-bit Perl
Verify complete 64 bit support so that the value of sysseek, or C<-s>, or
Yeah, I hope to implement it someday too. The points that were
raised in TPC2 were all to do with calling DESTROY() methods, but
-I think we can accomodate that by extending bless() to stash
+I think we can accommodate that by extending bless() to stash
extra information for objects so we track their lifetime accurately
for those that want their DESTROY() to be predictable (this will be
a speed hit, naturally, and will therefore be optional, naturally. :)
-
+
[N.B. Don't even ask me about this now! When I have the time to
write a cogent summary, I'll post it.]
No documentation for perl function `random stuff' found
The following entry in perlfunc.pod matches /random/a:
=item rand EXPR
-
+
=item rand
-
+
Returns a random fractional number greater than or equal to C<0> and less
than the value of EXPR. (EXPR should be positive.) If EXPR is
omitted, the value C<1> is used. Automatically calls C<srand()> unless
C<srand()> has already been called. See also C<srand()>.
-
+
(Note: If your rand function consistently returns numbers that are too
large or too small, then your version of Perl was probably compiled
with the wrong number of RANDBITS.)
past. a2p apparently doesn't work on nawk and gawk extensions.
Graham Barr has an Include module that does h2ph work at runtime.
-=head2 POD Converters
-
-Brad's PodParser code needs to become part of the core, and the Pod::*
-and pod2* programs rewritten to use this standard parser. Currently
-the converters take different options, some behave in different
-fashions, and some are more picky than others in terms of the POD
-files they accept.
-
=head2 pod2html
A short-term fix: pod2html generates absolute HTML links. Make it
=head2 autocroak?
-This is the Fatal.pm module, so any builtin that that does
+This is the Fatal.pm module, so any builtin that does
not return success automatically die()s. If you're feeling brave, tie
this in with the unified exceptions scheme.