From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:30:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the Thread:: change.
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Document the Thread:: change.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17532
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 9977756..4cb06c1 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -3611,10 +3611,16 @@ development release).
 
 The C<PerlIO::Scalar> and C<PerlIO::Via> (capitalised) were renamed as
 C<PerlIO::scalar> and C<PerlIO::via> (all lowercase) just before 5.8.0.
-The main rationale was to have all core IO layers to have all
+The main rationale was to have all core PerlIO layers to have all
 lowercase names.  The "plugins" are named as usual, for example
 C<PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint>.
 
+The C<threads::shared::queue> and C<threads::shared::semaphore> were
+renamed as C<Thread::Queue> and C<Thread::Semaphore> just before 5.8.0.
+The main rationale was to have thread modules to obey normal naming,
+C<Thread::> (the C<threads> and C<threads::shared> themselves are
+more pragma-like, they affect compile-time, so they stay lowercase).
+
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