X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperl571delta.pod;h=df132ccf77ff07c109048fc09a104f8d8862f1e5;hb=17c338f39c13131c1bc175ef38013b54bc98396d;hp=502387e9ec77d2c2550045182c697b25d8854dc8;hpb=3a2c142b66fbcb61857ee89fe71d97ea87480503;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perl571delta.pod b/pod/perl571delta.pod index 502387e..df132cc 100644 --- a/pod/perl571delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl571delta.pod @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This document describes differences between the 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release. (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 -release, see L). +release, see L.) =head1 Security Vulnerability Closed @@ -62,13 +62,15 @@ natively, ASCII or EBCDIC, unless GLOB_ALPHASORT is specified.) =head1 Core Enhancements -=over 4 - -=item * +=head2 AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable AUTOLOAD is now lvaluable, meaning that you can add the :lvalue attribute to AUTOLOAD subroutines and you can assign to the AUTOLOAD return value. +=head2 PerlIO is Now The Default + +=over 4 + =item * IO is now by default done via PerlIO rather than system's "stdio". @@ -192,6 +194,11 @@ C<\s> doesn't.) =back +=head2 Signals Are Now Safe + +Perl used to be fragile in that signals arriving at inopportune moments +could corrupt Perl's internal state. + =head1 Modules and Pragmata =head2 New Modules