From: Nicholas Clark Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:30:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Pod copy editing - whitespace cleanup, and F<>/C<> corrections. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=76e3c4a89555961a9fb37494c7f487da747ea57d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Pod copy editing - whitespace cleanup, and F<>/C<> corrections. --- diff --git a/pod/perl5110delta.pod b/pod/perl5110delta.pod index 0b8e414..3db6f2e 100644 --- a/pod/perl5110delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5110delta.pod @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ the 5.11.0 development release. =head2 In @INC, move ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB after the current version's site_perl and vendor_perl. - =head2 Switch statement changes The handling of complex expressions by the C/C switch @@ -294,8 +293,6 @@ on how to specify C when creating a distribution for CPAN. =head2 You can now set C<-W> from the C environment varialbe - - =head1 Modules and Pragmata =head2 New Modules and Pragmata @@ -463,7 +460,6 @@ used to be a lightweight placeholder that loaded the actual code from C on demand. C is now a simple, empty module kept for backwards compatibility for programs that used to pre-load it. - =item C Upgraded from version 3.29 to 3.43. @@ -956,7 +952,6 @@ Upgraded from version 1.04 to 1.05. UNIVERSAL->import() is now deprecated. - =item C Upgraded from version 0.34 to 0.39. @@ -994,10 +989,10 @@ C subroutines now work under the debugger. The debugger now correctly handles proxy constant subroutines, and subroutine stubs. - =item F - Perlbug now uses %Module::CoreList::bug_tracker to print out upstream bug tracker URLs. +F now uses %Module::CoreList::bug_tracker to print out upstream bug +tracker URLs. Where the user names a module that their bug report is about, and we know the URL for its upstream bug tracker, provide a message to the user explaining @@ -1044,9 +1039,9 @@ This describes the new F utility. =head1 Changes to Existing Documentation -The various large C files (which listed every change made to perl +The various large F files (which listed every change made to perl over the last 18 years) have been removed, and replaced by a small file, -also called C, which just explains how that same information may +also called F, which just explains how that same information may be extracted from the git version control system. The file F has been deleted, as it mainly described @@ -1077,7 +1072,6 @@ pod/perlthrtut.pod is the same material reworked for ithreads. With version objects, we need them to use MODULE VERSION syntax. This patch removes the deprecation note. - =head1 Performance Enhancements =over 4 @@ -1234,7 +1228,7 @@ status in a VMS condition value for better interaction with GNV's bash shell and other utilities that depend on POSIX exit values. See L for details. -File::Copy now detects Unix compatibility mode on VMS. +C now detects Unix compatibility mode on VMS. =back @@ -1248,9 +1242,9 @@ File::Copy now detects Unix compatibility mode on VMS. as documented, and as does C<-I> when specified on the command-line. (Renée Bäcker) -=item +=item * -* C is now fatal when called on non-numeric process identifiers. +C is now fatal when called on non-numeric process identifiers. Previously, an 'undef' process identifier would be interpreted as a request to kill process "0", which would terminate the current process group on POSIX systems. Since process identifiers are always integers, killing a non-numeric @@ -1677,7 +1671,7 @@ outside the core should be accessing this directly anyway. =item * -A new tool, C has been added, that allows you +A new tool, F has been added, that allows you to view how a C preprocessor macro would be expanded when compiled. This is handy when trying to decode the macro hell that is the perl guts. @@ -1831,7 +1825,6 @@ A workaround is to generate the character outside of the regex: Some regexes may run much more slowly when run in a child thread compared with the thread the pattern was compiled into [RT #55600]. - =back =head1 Deprecations @@ -1879,7 +1872,6 @@ warn if ++ or -- are unable to change the value because it's beyond the limit of This uses a new warnings category: "imprecision". - =item * Make lc/uc/lcfirst/ucfirst warn when passed undef. @@ -1953,7 +1945,6 @@ Nicholas Clark, leon, shawn, alexm, rjbs, rafl, Pedro Melo, brunorc, anonymous, ☄, Tom Hukins, anonymous, Jesse, dagolden, Moritz Onken, Mark Fowler, chorny, anonymous, tmtm - Finally, thanks to Larry Wall, without whom none of this would be necessary.