=head2 pack/unpack D/F recycled
-The undocumented pack/unpack template letters D/F have been recyled
+The undocumented pack/unpack template letters D/F have been recycled
for better use: now they stand for long double (if supported by the
platform) and NV (Perl internal floating point type). (They used
to be aliases for f/d, but you never knew that.)
=item *
The builtin dump() now gives an optional warning
-C<Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::dump(), qualify as such or use &>
+C<dump() better written as CORE::dump()>,
meaning that by default C<dump(...)> is resolved as the builtin
dump() which dumps core and aborts, not as (possibly) user-defined
C<sub dump>. To call the latter, qualify the call as C<&dump(...)>.
=item *
-chomp() and chop() have been demoted back to I<not> being overrideable
+chomp() and chop() have been demoted back to I<not> being overridable
because they cannot really be overridden-- the problem is that their
prototype cannot be expressed and therefore one really cannot write
replacements to override these builtins.
C<Devel::PPPort>, originally from Kenneth Albanowski and now
maintained by Paul Marquess, has been added. It is primarily used
-by C<h2xs> to enhance portability of of XS modules between different
+by C<h2xs> to enhance portability of XS modules between different
versions of Perl.
=item *
The English module can now be used without the infamous performance
hit by saying
- use English '-no_performance_hit';
+ use English '-no_match_vars';
(Assuming, of course, that one doesn't need the troublesome variables
C<$`>, C<$&>, or C<$'>.) Also, introduced C<@LAST_MATCH_START> and