From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:02:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Newest things to put in perldelta X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f00638a24718f91c75bff114269369fbabf3074c;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Newest things to put in perldelta p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32161 --- diff --git a/pod/perl5100delta.pod b/pod/perl5100delta.pod index 7d9dacf..7751281 100644 --- a/pod/perl5100delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5100delta.pod @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ modifiers, has been removed. The deprecated C<$#> variable (output format for numbers) has been removed. -Two new warnings, C<$#/$* is no longer supported>, have been added. +Two new severe warnings, C<$#/$* is no longer supported>, have been added. =head2 substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length @@ -884,18 +884,18 @@ that use Module::Build's framework of configurability (that is, C<*::ConfigData> modules that contain local configuration information for their parent modules.) -=head2 C +=item cpanp C, the CPANPLUS shell, has been added. (C, an helper for CPANPLUS operation, has been added too, but isn't intended for direct use). -=head2 C +=item cpan2dist C is a new utility, that comes with CPANPLUS. It's a tool to create distributions (or packages) from CPAN modules. -=head2 C +=item pod2html The output of C has been enhanced to be more customizable via CSS. Some formatting problems were also corrected. (Jari Aalto) @@ -920,6 +920,8 @@ string encodings in Perl, courtesy of Juerd Waalboer. A new manual page, L (the Perl Unicode FAQ), has been added (Juerd Waalboer). +The L manual page documents the C namespace. (Tels) + The long-existing feature of C regexps setting C<$_> and pos() is now documented. @@ -1131,7 +1133,7 @@ improved. (ActiveState) =item Visual C++ -Perl now can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005. +Perl now can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++. =item Win32 builds @@ -1357,6 +1359,10 @@ Two deprecation warnings have been added: (Rafael) Opening dirhandle %s also as a file Opening filehandle %s also as a directory +=item Use of -P is deprecated + +Perl's command-line switch C<-P> is now deprecated. + =item perl -V C has several improvements, making it more useable from shell @@ -1445,8 +1451,6 @@ an hash/array when the op is flagged with OPf_SPECIAL (Nicholas Clark). =for p5p XXX new BIND SV type, #29544, #29642 -=head1 New Tests - =head1 Known Problems There's still a remaining problem in the implementation of the lexical