From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:19:31 +0000 (+0300) Subject: perl573delta delinting X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14e65a201c70c8bc90f5f26dc9b327bb7cdf015e;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git perl573delta delinting Message-ID: <20021004131931.GE278184@lyta.hut.fi> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18000 --- diff --git a/pod/perl573delta.pod b/pod/perl573delta.pod index b6c7bed..65c1ca5 100644 --- a/pod/perl573delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl573delta.pod @@ -16,11 +16,12 @@ see L.) =head1 Changes This is just a selected list of some of the more notable changes. -The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see L -(or L in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these changes, lots of -work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and Unicode; and general -code cleanup; and last but not least and porting to non-UNIX lands like -Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, and EBCDIC. +The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see +L (or L in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these +changes, lots of work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and +Unicode; and general code cleanup; and last but not least and porting +to non-UNIX lands like Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, +and EBCDIC. =over 4 @@ -34,11 +35,11 @@ add DEL to [:cntrl:] =item 11375 -make h2ph understand constants like 1234L +make h2ph understand constants like 1234L and 5678LL =item 11405 -fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment under Win32 +Win32: fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment =item 11410 @@ -50,8 +51,8 @@ make perl fork() safe even on platforms that don't have pthread_atfork() =item 11459 -make switching optimization levels during Perl builds easier via -the OPTIMIZE environment variable +make switching optimization and debugging levels during Perl builds +easier via the OPTIMIZE environment variable =item 11475 @@ -67,7 +68,8 @@ allow installing extra modules or bundles when building Perl =item 11516 -add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed our dubious C practices +add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed out dubious +C practices =item 11541 @@ -75,15 +77,16 @@ pluggable optimizer =item 11549 -integrate to WinCE port +WinCE: integrate the port =item 11589 -4-arg select was broken on windows +Win32: 4-arg select was broken =item 11594 -introduce the perlivp utility +introduce the perlivp utility for verifying the Perl installation +(IVP = Installation Verification Procedure) =item 11623 @@ -100,8 +103,9 @@ document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the time =item 11656 -allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8 the -default script encoding +allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8 +the default script encoding (not the default since that would +break all scripts having legacy eight-bit data in them) =item 11725 @@ -113,7 +117,7 @@ document the coderef-in-@INC feature =item 11794 -modulu preserving 64-bit integers +modulo (%) preserving 64-bit integers =item 11825 @@ -137,7 +141,7 @@ fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U =item 12056 -waitpid enchancements for VMS +VMS: waitpid enhancements =item 12180