X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperldelta.pod;h=217967627d1807feff3a5c0ea63fc6ba48bf860b;hb=f505c9832e74f948e2721f6c36b348502f15804c;hp=14ba3dcd7bd69062993bc04aa83a25172af88063;hpb=9ffcd8612a179e6a837df3e98019ae7fe24b4fa1;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 14ba3dc..2179676 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -307,6 +307,11 @@ Benchmark: running a, b, each for at least 5 CPU seconds... New features: "each for at least N CPU seconds...", "wallclock secs", and the "@ operations/CPU second (n=operations)". +=item Devel::Peek + +The Devel::Peek module provides access to the internal representation +of Perl variables. It is a data debugging tool for the XS programmer. + =item Fcntl More Fcntl constants added: F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW64, O_LARGEFILE for @@ -315,6 +320,27 @@ working, though, so no need to get overly excited), Free/Net/OpenBSD locking behaviour flags F_FLOCK, F_POSIX, Linux F_SHLCK, and O_ACCMODE: the mask of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR. +=item File::Spec + +New methods have been added to the File::Spec module: devnull() returns +the name of the null device (/dev/null on UNIX) and tmpdir() the name of +the temp directory (normally /tmp on UNIX). There are now also methods +to convert between absolute and relative filenames: abs2rel() and +rel2abs(). For compatibility with operating systems that specify volume +names in file paths, the splitpath(), splitdir() and catdir() methods +have been added. + +=item File::Spec::Functions + +The new File::Spec::Functions modules provides a function interface +to the File::Spec module. Allows shorthand + + $fullname = catfile($dir1, $dir2, $file); + +instead of + + $fullname = File::Spec->catfile($dir1, $dir2, $file); + =item Math::Complex The accessor methods Re, Im, arg, abs, rho, and theta, can now also