From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:26:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: perldelta updates.
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perldelta updates.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14897
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index eea65ba..7d2b1f0 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ A reference to a reference now stringifies as "REF(0x81485ec)" instead
 of "SCALAR(0x81485ec)" in order to be more consistent with the return
 value of ref().
 
+=head2 pack/unpack D/F recycled
+
+The undocumented pack/unpack template letters D/F have been recyled
+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.)
+
 =head2 Deprecations
 
 =over 4
@@ -456,6 +463,7 @@ apply repetition/count modifiers on the groups.
 
 C<pack() / unpack()> can now process the Perl internal numeric types:
 IVs, UVs, NVs-- and also long doubles, if supported by the platform.
+The template letters are C<j>, C<J>, C<F>, and C<D>.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -659,6 +667,11 @@ frontend Filter::Simple is to be preferred.  See L<Filter::Util::Call>.
 
 =item *
 
+C<if> is a new pragma for conditional inclusion of modules, from
+Ilya Zakharevich.
+
+=item *
+
 L<libnet> is a collection of perl5 modules related to network
 programming, from Graham Barr.  See L<Net::FTP>, L<Net::NNTP>,
 L<Net::Ping>, L<Net::POP3>, L<Net::SMTP>, and L<Net::Time>.
@@ -859,6 +872,10 @@ where data sharing was implicit.  See L<threads::shared>.
 
 =item *
 
+C<Tie::Memoize>, by Ilya Zakharevich, provides on-demand loaded hashes.
+
+=item *
+
 C<Tie::RefHash::Nestable>, by Edward Avis, allows storing hash
 references (unlike the standard Tie::RefHash)  The module is contained
 within Tie::RefHash, see L<Tie::RefHash>.