From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:50:38 +0000 (+0000) Subject: perldelta updates. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7d8191e6d79b4fe0256b76f0638fbcf88d67aa7;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git perldelta updates. p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2783 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 6745606..4acf867 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -118,7 +118,36 @@ Verify operations that access pad objects (lexicals and temporaries). =head2 Modules -Dumpvalue module provides screen dumps of Perl data. +=over 4 + +=item Dumpvalue + +Added Dumpvalue module provides screen dumps of Perl data. + +=item Benchmark + +You can now run tests for I seconds instead of guessing the right +number of tests to run. + +=item Fcntl + +More Fcntl constants added: F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW64, O_LARGEFILE for +large (more than 4G) file access (the 64-bit support is not yet +working, though, so no need to get overly excited), Free/Net/OpenBSD +locking behaviour flags F_FLOCK, F_POSIX, Linux F_SHLCK, and +O_ACCMODE: the mask of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR. + +=item Math::Complex + +The accessors methods Re, Im, arg, abs, rho, theta, methods can +($z->Re()) now also act as mutators ($z->Re(3)). + +=item Math::Trig + +A little bit of radial trigonometry (cylindrical and spherical) added, +for example the great circle distance. + +=back =head2 Pragmata