perl 3.0: (no announcement message available)
authorLarry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Wed, 18 Oct 1989 00:00:00 +0000 (00:00 +0000)
committerLarry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Wed, 18 Oct 1989 00:00:00 +0000 (00:00 +0000)
commita687059cbaf2c6fdccb5e0fae2aee80ec15625a8
tree674c8533b7bd942204f23782934c72f8624dd308
parent13281fa4f8547e0eb31d1986b865d9b7ec7d0dcc
perl 3.0: (no announcement message available)

A few of the new features: (18 Oct)

    * Perl can now handle binary data correctly and has functions to pack and unpack binary structures into arrays or lists. You can now do arbitrary ioctl functions.
    * You can now pass things to subroutines by reference.
    * Debugger enhancements.
    * An array or associative array may now appear in a local() list.
    * Array values may now be interpolated into strings.
    * Subroutine names are now distinguished by prefixing with &. You can call subroutines without using do, and without passing any argument list at all.
    * You can use the new -u switch to cause perl to dump core so that you can run undump and produce a binary executable image. Alternately you can use the "dump" operator after initializing any variables and such.
    * You can now chop lists.
    * Perl now uses /bin/csh to do filename globbing, if available. This means that filenames with spaces or other strangenesses work right.
    * New functions: mkdir and rmdir, getppid, getpgrp and setpgrp, getpriority and setpriority, chroot, ioctl and fcntl, flock, readlink, lstat, rindex, pack and unpack, read, warn, dbmopen and dbmclose, dump, reverse, defined, undef.
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Configure
Copying [new file with mode: 0644]
EXTERN.h
INTERN.h
MANIFEST
Makefile.SH
PACKINGLIST [new file with mode: 0644]
README
Wishlist
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arg.h
array.c
array.h
client [new file with mode: 0644]
cmd.c
cmd.h
config.H
config.h.SH
cons.c [new file with mode: 0644]
consarg.c [new file with mode: 0644]
doarg.c [new file with mode: 0644]
doio.c [new file with mode: 0644]
dolist.c [new file with mode: 0644]
dump.c
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form.c
form.h
gettest [new file with mode: 0644]
handy.h
hash.c
hash.h
ioctl.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/abbrev.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/complete.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/dumpvar.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
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lib/importenv.pl
lib/look.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/perldb.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/stat.pl
lib/termcap.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/validate.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
makedepend.SH
makedir.SH
makelib.SH [new file with mode: 0644]
malloc.c
patchlevel.h
perl.h
perl.man.1
perl.man.2
perl.man.3 [new file with mode: 0644]
perl.man.4 [new file with mode: 0644]
perl.y
perldb [deleted file]
perldb.man [deleted file]
perly.c
regcomp.c [new file with mode: 0644]
regcomp.h [new file with mode: 0644]
regexec.c [new file with mode: 0644]
regexp.c [deleted file]
regexp.h
server [new file with mode: 0644]
spat.h
stab.c
stab.h
str.c
str.h
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t/base.if
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t/comp.cmdopt
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t/op.range [new file with mode: 0644]
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t/op.regexp
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t/op.sort [new file with mode: 0644]
t/op.split
t/op.sprintf
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t/op.study
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t/op.substr [new file with mode: 0644]
t/op.time
t/op.undef [new file with mode: 0644]
t/op.unshift
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t/op.write [new file with mode: 0644]
t/re_tests
toke.c
util.c
util.h
version.c [deleted file]
x2p/EXTERN.h
x2p/INTERN.h
x2p/Makefile.SH
x2p/a2p.h
x2p/a2p.man
x2p/a2p.y
x2p/a2py.c
x2p/handy.h
x2p/hash.c
x2p/hash.h
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x2p/s2p.man
x2p/str.c
x2p/str.h
x2p/util.c
x2p/util.h
x2p/walk.c