14 months agoClearify "build, test and check a fresh perl" instructions v5.15.9
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:03:30 +0000]
Clearify "build, test and check a fresh perl" instructions

14 months agoAdd 5.15.9 release to perlhist.pod
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:21:23 +0000]
Add 5.15.9 release to perlhist.pod

14 months agoWork around an HTML display issue
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:13:55 +0000]
Work around an HTML display issue

14 months agoFinal version of Module::CoreList is 2.65.
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:50:00 +0000]
Final version of Module::CoreList is 2.65.

14 months agoClearify that perl can crash, not Windows
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:13:55 +0000]
Clearify that perl can crash, not Windows

14 months agoSay "warnings" instead of "errors"
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:12:38 +0000]
Say "warnings" instead of "errors"

14 months agoRemoved the changes to Term::ReadLine from the bug fixes section.
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:09:49 +0000]
Removed the changes to Term::ReadLine from the bug fixes section.

And added a line to the module upgrades section.

14 months agoFix typo in pod/perldelta
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:31:35 +0000]
Fix typo in pod/perldelta

14 months agoReran Porting/acknowledgements.pl
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:27:21 +0000]
Reran Porting/acknowledgements.pl

14 months agoList 5.16 blockers in 'Known Problems' in perldelta
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:24:00 +0000]
List 5.16 blockers in 'Known Problems' in perldelta

14 months agoyes, regression fixes are generally okay for maint
Ricardo Signes [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:00:38 +0000]
yes, regression fixes are generally okay for maint

14 months agoGet the ABSTRACT for Module-CoreList from the .pod file now
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:12:34 +0000]
Get the ABSTRACT for Module-CoreList from the .pod file now

14 months agocorrect logic error that meant that "last" might not be updated properly
Yves Orton [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:52:46 +0000]
correct logic error that meant that "last" might not be updated properly

While checking into an unrelated issue I realized "last" might not
be reset under certain circumstances. Although I could not find a way
to make anything bad happen from perl, I decided to fix it, at worst
we waste a few CPU cycles setting "last" to NULL more often than we
should.

14 months ago[RT #111842] prevent TRIE overwriting EXACT following NOTHING at start
Yves Orton [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:46:45 +0000]
[RT #111842] prevent TRIE overwriting EXACT following NOTHING at start

Fixes RT #111842. Example:

    "x" =~ /\A(?>(?:(?:)A|B|C?x))\z/

Should match, but didn't due to allowing NOTHING to start a sequence.
See comment in patch for details.

This also changes a test to no longer be TODO, and improves the test
name to explain its purpose.

14 months agoDocument the TRIE changes in perldelta
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:13:39 +0000]
Document the TRIE changes in perldelta

14 months agoChanged email adress & fixed name for Mark Fisher.
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:28:38 +0000]
Changed email adress & fixed name for Mark Fisher.

As requested in
<CAMLAAiJK6-AsGYKMtt_W9E_7=R-+hhfC1ten3ZwMcsPgfmYqtg@mail.gmail.com>

14 months agoDocument upgrade of lib/charnames.
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:15:36 +0000]
Document upgrade of lib/charnames.

Changed Module::Corelist and perldelta.pod

14 months agocharnames: Clarify viacode pod
Karl Williamson [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:15:07 +0000]
charnames: Clarify viacode pod

This mentions that viacode's return can change as a result of
corrections to the Unicode standard.

14 months agocharnames pod: slight rewording
Karl Williamson [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:14:28 +0000]
charnames pod: slight rewording

14 months agocharnames: re-order pod sections
Karl Williamson [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:10:18 +0000]
charnames: re-order pod sections

This merely moves one =head1 section to later in the pod, so that future
changes will make more sense; and it has to bump the version.

14 months agoFix spelling errors in pod/perldelta.pod
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:05:46 +0000]
Fix spelling errors in pod/perldelta.pod

14 months agoDocument new versions of Data::Dumper and XS::APItest.
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:48:29 +0000]
Document new versions of Data::Dumper and XS::APItest.

Updated Module::CoreList and perldelta to reflect the changes.

14 months ago5160delta: Note that feasible to remain on Unicode 6.0
Karl Williamson [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:49:46 +0000]
5160delta: Note that feasible to remain on Unicode 6.0

14 months agoPaste in the output of Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl
Abigail [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:41:52 +0000]
Paste in the output of Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl

- Manually added feature.
- Data::Dumper was upgraded while working on this; so we'll have to
  redo the corelist, and adjust the "Updated Modules and Pragmata"
  section.

14 months agoDeprecate utf8_to_uvchr() and utf8_to_uvuni()
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:31:18 +0000]
Deprecate utf8_to_uvchr() and utf8_to_uvuni()

These functions can read beyond the end of their input strings if
presented with malformed UTF-8 input.  Perl core code has been converted
to use other functions instead of these.

14 months agoUse the new utf8 to code point functions
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:38:06 +0000]
Use the new utf8 to code point functions

These functions should be used in preference to the old ones which can
read beyond the end of the input string.

14 months agoutf8.c: Add valid_utf8_to_uvuni() and valid_utf8_to_uvchr()
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:13:19 +0000]
utf8.c: Add valid_utf8_to_uvuni() and valid_utf8_to_uvchr()

These functions are like utf8_to_uvuni() and utf8_to_uvchr(), but their
name implies that the input UTF-8 has been validated.

They are not currently documented, as it's best for XS writers to call
the functions that do validation.

14 months agoutf8.c: Add utf8_to_uvchr_buf() and utf8_to_uvuni_buf()
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:03:01 +0000]
utf8.c: Add utf8_to_uvchr_buf() and utf8_to_uvuni_buf()

The existing functions (utf8_to_uvchr and utf8_to_uvuni) have a
deficiency in that they could read beyond the end of the input string if
given malformed input.  This commit creates two new functions which
behave as the old ones did, but have an extra parameter each, which
gives the upper limit to the string, so no read beyond it is done.

14 months agoutf8.c: pod clarification
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:48:51 +0000]
utf8.c: pod clarification

14 months agoutf8.c: pod (mostly formatting) + comments changes
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:48:58 +0000]
utf8.c: pod (mostly formatting) + comments changes

14 months agoperlapi (from sv.h) clarifications
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:21:26 +0000]
perlapi (from sv.h) clarifications

14 months agoautodoc.pl: pod format fix
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:01:11 +0000]
autodoc.pl: pod format fix

14 months agoperlguts, warnings.t: Update references to obsolete fcn names
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:52:25 +0000]
perlguts, warnings.t: Update references to obsolete fcn names

These functions were replaced long ago, apparently in 5.8, but I didn't
verify that for sure.

14 months agoperldelta: clarification
Karl Williamson [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:44:08 +0000]
perldelta: clarification

14 months agoUpdate Module::CoreList for 5.15.9
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:43:04 +0000]
Update Module::CoreList for 5.15.9

14 months agoPoint out CoreList's CAVEATS section is in CoreList.pod
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:39:21 +0000]
Point out CoreList's CAVEATS section is in CoreList.pod

Fix the git commit line as well.

14 months agoEliminate a warning
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:14:24 +0000]
Eliminate a warning

14 months agomktables: white-space only
Karl Williamson [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:01:21 +0000]
mktables: white-space only

This outdents code to line up vertically with surrounding text

14 months agomktables: Backport name_alias changes to earlier Unicode versions
Karl Williamson [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:54:24 +0000]
mktables: Backport name_alias changes to earlier Unicode versions

This allow mktables to be compiled for earlier Unicode versions and
work for them.

14 months agomktables: Don't duplicate entries
Karl Williamson [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:12:49 +0000]
mktables: Don't duplicate entries

The Name table can have multiple names for each code point.  The highest
priority ones are first in the file.  Prior to this patch, adding a
high priority name to a code point which already had the same name, the
old name could be retained, leaving two identical names for the code
point.  This patch causes the lower-priority one to be deleted.

14 months agomktables: A leading zero is different than an only 0
Karl Williamson [Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:46:18 +0000]
mktables: A leading zero is different than an only 0

Commit b91749bce0ff3d86c6e210a0b35289b4ad36c144 assumed that a single
0 was a leading 0.  This inappropriately makes a table appear to be hex
when it isn't.  This currently affects the kPrimaryNumeric property
which is part of the Unihan database, and is not normally generated by
mktables; it is generated only if an installation decides they want
to compile Perl to use the Unihan properties.

14 months agoUnicode::UCD::prop_invmap: Fix returned format
Karl Williamson [Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:39:15 +0000]
Unicode::UCD::prop_invmap: Fix returned format

The type of an 'a' table should not be changed to 's'.  This bug
happened currently only if someone changed mktables to output one of the
optional files.

14 months agoUnicode::UCD: typos in error messages
Karl Williamson [Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:37:37 +0000]
Unicode::UCD: typos in error messages

These concatenated the package name with the beginning of the text with
no intervening punctuation.  Add also the function within the package

14 months agomktables: Add required parens and reword warning msg
Karl Williamson [Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:15:17 +0000]
mktables: Add required parens and reword warning msg

Should this message ever get triggered, it would fail because the
precedence is wrong: the argument to hex needs parens.  Also reword
somewhat for clarity.

14 months agopat.t: Fix typo in comment
Karl Williamson [Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:59 +0000]
pat.t: Fix typo in comment

14 months agoBump the perl version in various places for 5.15.9
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:49:34 +0000]
Bump the perl version in various places for 5.15.9

14 months agoMore perldelta work.
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:18:15 +0000]
More perldelta work.

14 months agoMention the fix to perlfunc.html in "Configuration and Compilation" as well.
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:04:14 +0000]
Mention the fix to perlfunc.html in "Configuration and Compilation" as well.

Also, fix the spelling of html.

14 months agoNote in the source of perlhist.pod that "cow orker" is no typo.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:43:15 +0000]
Note in the source of perlhist.pod that "cow orker" is no typo.

This won't change the rendered pod, but will clarify to anyone thinking to
patch the "mistake" that the seeming typo is intentional.

14 months agoMention Porting/bisect.pl in perlgit.pod, before describing git bisect.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:22:32 +0000]
Mention Porting/bisect.pl in perlgit.pod, before describing git bisect.

Porting/bisect.pl is intended to cover 90% of use cases, whilst being simpler
to use than git bisect, so mention it first. Condense the description of
git bisect slightly - it's giving implementation details which duplicate
git help bisect, which we already refer the reader to.

14 months agoAdd two missing "file"s to the documentation of Porting/bisect.pl
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:58:47 +0000]
Add two missing "file"s to the documentation of Porting/bisect.pl

14 months agoMove the example git bisect shell script from perlgit.pod to Porting/
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:27:28 +0000]
Move the example git bisect shell script from perlgit.pod to Porting/

This both avoids cluttering the flow of manpage with auxiliary data, and
saves the user from having to extract the script from within the pod file.

14 months agobisect-runner.pl should detect ccache with -V, not --version
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:48:31 +0000]
bisect-runner.pl should detect ccache with -V, not --version

ccache 2.4 doesn't support the --version parameter, only -V. ccache 3
supports both.

14 months agoAdd a placeholder man page for perltodo, directing people to look at git.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:18:18 +0000]
Add a placeholder man page for perltodo, directing people to look at git.

(Done as a second commit to avoid confusing git's rename detection.)

14 months agoMove the todo list from pod/ to Porting/
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:42:15 +0000]
Move the todo list from pod/ to Porting/

Installing the Perl 5 to-do list as a manpage isn't that useful to anyone, as
it's a snapshot that becomes increasingly out of date. Much better to point
anyone interested in contributing direct to git HEAD, to view the current list.

14 months agoAdd a TODO test for RT 111842
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:16:21 +0000]
Add a TODO test for RT 111842

14 months agoBail out if it looks scary.
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:40:02 +0000]
Bail out if it looks scary.

Porting/sync-with-cpan hasn't automated all situations yet. In particular,
it assumes the FILE entry has just one element, and that element is a
directory. It also does not know what to do with MAP. If we determine
this situation, we terminate the program before making any changes.
Although there's the --force option for the braves.

14 months agoDon't remove --tarball
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:26:12 +0000]
Don't remove --tarball

By default, the script removes the tarball of the new distributions.
However, if the --tarball option was given (and hence, the file was not
downloaded from CPAN), we opt to keep this file around.

14 months agoUse #!/usr/bin/env
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:23:12 +0000]
Use #!/usr/bin/env

/usr/bin/perl on dromedary is 5.8.8; but the script requires 5.10.
By using #!/usr/bin/env, we give the user more control over which perl
should be used. (And this benefits not just dromedary usesr)

14 months agoMore work on perldelta
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:14:15 +0000]
More work on perldelta

14 months agoMerge the feature and B::Deparse refactoring to blead.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:30:34 +0000]
Merge the feature and B::Deparse refactoring to blead.

14 months agoNote the improvements to B::Deparse and feature in perldelta.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:29:48 +0000]
Note the improvements to B::Deparse and feature in perldelta.

14 months agoIn feature.pm, inline current_bundle() into __common(), its only caller.
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:54:10 +0000]
In feature.pm, inline current_bundle() into __common(), its only caller.

current_bundle() was added after 5.14.0 was released, so has never been in
a stable release. Hence it's totally safe to kill it.

14 months agoIn feature.pm, inline normalise_hints() into __common(), its only caller.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:33:08 +0000]
In feature.pm, inline normalise_hints() into __common(), its only caller.

normalise_hints() was added after 5.14.0 was released, so has never been in
a stable release. Hence it's totally safe to kill it.

14 months agoMerge the code common to feature::import and feature::unimport.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:24:57 +0000]
Merge the code common to feature::import and feature::unimport.

14 months agoIn feature.pm, use a consistent code style in import() and unimport().
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:57:54 +0000]
In feature.pm, use a consistent code style in import() and unimport().

There were a couple of inconsistencies (shift with/without an explicit @_,
exists with/without(), !@_ vs @_ == 0) which turn out to date back to
before 5.10.0

Also fix an inadvertent use of a single element array slice with a simple
array lookup in current_bundle().

14 months agoIn B::Deparse::_features_from_bundle(), don't call feature::current_bundle()
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:30:30 +0000]
In B::Deparse::_features_from_bundle(), don't call feature::current_bundle()

Instead, directly access feature's package variables, as B::Deparse already
does in 14 other places. (It also has its tentacles firmly into strict
and warning's package variables - it's not fussy)

feature::current_bundle() was not part of the documented API of feature
either, so B::Deparse wasn't clean previously.

14 months agoIn Deparse, use $feature::hint_mask directly, instead of copying its value.
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:11:02 +0000]
In Deparse, use $feature::hint_mask directly, instead of copying its value.

Also, require feature unconditionally.

Deparse already directly uses data from feature, switch and warnings, so
this isn't a new trend in encapsulation breakage. Previously Deparse copied
the value of $feature::hint_mask, and lazily loaded require in 4 places.

14 months agoIn B::Deparse, refactor common code into _features_from_bundle().
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:09:02 +0000]
In B::Deparse, refactor common code into _features_from_bundle().

14 months agoIn B::Deparse, refactor the two places that feature::current_bundle()
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:57:31 +0000]
In B::Deparse, refactor the two places that feature::current_bundle()

Converge the code, so that it's easy to extract out into a subroutine.

14 months agoFix regression in deparsing say (etc) under use 5.10.0
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:32:08 +0000]
Fix regression in deparsing say (etc) under use 5.10.0

Commit 6634bb9d0ed117be introduced a regression, causing this

    use 5.10.0;
    say "Perl rules";

to be deparsed as C<CORE::say>, not C<say>, etc. It wasn't actually possible
to write tests for this within the t/deparse.t framework until the recent
refactoring.

14 months agoAdd tests for deparsing C<say> under various combinations of pragmas.
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:44:51 +0000]
Add tests for deparsing C<say> under various combinations of pragmas.

These mostly codify the current output of B::Deparse, which is not invalid,
but might not be considered to be the optimal output. (It's defensive, in
that it uses C<no feature;> which will ensure consistent behaviour whatever
pragma context the output is evaluated in.)

Some are TODO for the cases where B::Deparse is wrongly outputting
C<CORE::say> instead of plain C<say> and C<CORE::__SUB__> instead of plain
C<__SUB__>.

14 months agoAvoid deparse.t testing everything under use feature ':5.10'
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:00:56 +0000]
Avoid deparse.t testing everything under use feature ':5.10'

Only use feature ':5.10' in those tests that actually need it. This will let
us add tests for deparsing without any features enabled.

14 months agoAdd a 'context' feature to deparse.t, to better test ambient pragmas.
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:49:18 +0000]
Add a 'context' feature to deparse.t, to better test ambient pragmas.

Call ambient_pragmas() before each deparse test. This will allow use to remove
the constraints of the current default, which is to always run under
use feature ":5.10";

14 months agoIn deparse.t, rename %reason to %meta.
Nicholas Clark [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:43:02 +0000]
In deparse.t, rename %reason to %meta.

Whilst skip and todo both have "reason"s, subsequent refactoring will use it
for other purposes.

14 months agoNote in perldelta that C<no feature;> now means reset to default.
Nicholas Clark [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:20:42 +0000]
Note in perldelta that C<no feature;> now means reset to default.

The behaviour was changed with commit 39ec54a59ce332fc.

14 months agoRetry first shot at perldelta.pod.
Abigail [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:20:09 +0000]
Retry first shot at perldelta.pod.

Documents the differences between 5.15.8 and 5.15.9.

14 months agoUpdate Pod::Perldoc to version 3.17
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:53:14 +0000]
Update Pod::Perldoc to version 3.17

14 months agoAdd a --tarball option
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:51:14 +0000]
Add a --tarball option

This allows to do the cpan/ upgrade without having to contact CPAN.
For instance, from dromedary, it seems to be impossible to fetch
files from CPAN. With the --tarball option, you can pass the location
of the tarball, and this will used instead of fetching it automatically
from CPAN.

14 months agoSome backslashes turn out not to be always there.
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:36:42 +0000]
Some backslashes turn out not to be always there.

14 months agoFix a cut-and-paste error
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:36:03 +0000]
Fix a cut-and-paste error

14 months agoRevert "First shot at perl5159delta.pod"
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:32:17 +0000]
Revert "First shot at perl5159delta.pod"

This reverts commit 21ffc8459b739cc13a32f22a2edb7be485a062e0.

Until I can figure out how to add a new perldelta and make all tests pass.

14 months agoRevert "Paste in the output of Porting/acknowledgements.pl in pod/perl5159delta.pod"
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:31:28 +0000]
Revert "Paste in the output of Porting/acknowledgements.pl in pod/perl5159delta.pod"

This reverts commit 98f0737d71a92167bf1aace8a8d8411b985e3200.

Until I can figure out how to add a new perldelta and make all tests pass.

14 months agoPaste in the output of Porting/acknowledgements.pl in pod/perl5159delta.pod
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:26:59 +0000]
Paste in the output of Porting/acknowledgements.pl in pod/perl5159delta.pod

14 months agoAttempt to find an author if (s)he comes via RT.
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:24:23 +0000]
Attempt to find an author if (s)he comes via RT.

In the case of commits, it maybe that the reporter used RT, which results
in a generic RT email address. Instead of just reporting the author as '!',
we'll do an attempt to see whether he's named in the AUTHORS file.

14 months agoFirst shot at perl5159delta.pod
Abigail [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:20:03 +0000]
First shot at perl5159delta.pod

14 months agoUpdate CPANPLUS to CPAN version 0.9121
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:50:17 +0000]
Update CPANPLUS to CPAN version 0.9121

This resolves a regression introduced with v0.9109
which was included with perl version v5.15.2 and is
therefore a regression since v5.14.x

  [DELTA]

  Changes for 0.9121      Sat Mar 17 23:23:42 2012
  ================================================
  * Resolved a regression with dev '_' version
    numbers since 0.9109

14 months agoIn S_parse_body(), don't "leak" linestr_sv until global destruction.
Nicholas Clark [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:22:41 +0000]
In S_parse_body(), don't "leak" linestr_sv until global destruction.

This commit ensures that linestr_sv is properly cleaned up, if allocated.

The local variable linestr_sv was added by commit 009d90df4e17a415 in 2007,
to replace use of PL_linestr in S_parse_body(). However, that commit didn't
add any code to free linestr_sv at the end of S_parse_body(), meaning that
the SV sticks around until global destruction.

Subsequent code simplification possible by the removal of suidperl reveals
that linestr_sv is only needed for the '-x' option, so it's safe to avoid
allocating it up front. Additionally, during '-x' processing, Perl_sv_gets()
will upgrade the target SV to SVt_PV and allocate the string buffer as needed,
so there's no need to pre-upgrade or pre-allocate the SV in S_parse_body().
This slightly reduces the amount of code.

14 months agoRemove all the never used parameters from the macro validate_suid()
Nicholas Clark [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:50:49 +0000]
Remove all the never used parameters from the macro validate_suid()

Several parameters are unused in either remaining variant of the
validate_suid() macro. The two variants which used the extra parameters
were removed with suidperl by commit cc69b689ee7c2745 in Jan 2009.

14 months agoIn perlfunc, don't have functions in "Misc" and a second category.
Nicholas Clark [Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:41 +0000]
In perlfunc, don't have functions in "Misc" and a second category.

dump, eval, evalbytes and wantarray are now only in "flow control".
local, my, our and state are only in "scoping".
prototype is now only in "misc". Whilst *prototypes* affect parsing, and
hence indirectly flow control, the prototype function is for introspecting
prototypes.

14 months agoDe-emphasise switch-related keywords in perlfunc.
Nicholas Clark [Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:54:38 +0000]
De-emphasise switch-related keywords in perlfunc.

Move the 3 non-function keywords into the summary cross reference section
at the end of perlfunc. Eliminate the examples which duplicate examples in
perlsyn. Merge the remaining 2 keywords into the "control flow" group.
Note that the switch feature is considered experimental.

With these changes, `perldoc -f default`, `perldoc -f given` and
`perldoc -f when` will still return a helpful result, and as before will
refer the reader to perlsyn for full information.

14 months agoIn the perlfunc cross-reference sections, link to the section within a page.
Nicholas Clark [Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:33:22 +0000]
In the perlfunc cross-reference sections, link to the section within a page.

perlfunc now has a section cross referencing keywords documented elsewhere.
Keywords are grouped by man page, and for most manpages, all the
cross-referenced keywords are in the same section. Hence make the L<> links
more specific by including the section.

14 months agoDESTROY is documented in perlobj - correct the cross-reference in perlfunc.
Nicholas Clark [Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:49:44 +0000]
DESTROY is documented in perlobj - correct the cross-reference in perlfunc.

14 months agoignore new build result from splitting docs for Module::CoreList
Tony Cook [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:39:04 +0000]
ignore new build result from splitting docs for Module::CoreList

14 months agoUnicode::UCD: pod clarifications, corrections
Karl Williamson [Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:32:04 +0000]
Unicode::UCD: pod clarifications, corrections

14 months agocharnames.t: Attempt to fix probable timing issue
Karl Williamson [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:14:05 +0000]
charnames.t: Attempt to fix probable timing issue

charnames.t sometimes fails on a test that is expecting a file to be
non-existent.  However, other tests in it briefly create a file by that
name.  When two instances of the .t are run in parallel, as happens in
some smokes, it could be that the file exists at the time it is expected
not to.  The result is a non-reproducible failure.  Anyway, that is my
theory.  And so this commit changes to use a filename that is used just
by the test for what happens when a file is non-existent, and hence
doesn't ever exist even transiently.

14 months agocherrymaint: Beef up --help option
Karl Williamson [Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:44:19 +0000]
cherrymaint: Beef up --help option

I can never remember how to set the tunnel up for using this, so
add it to the help output

14 months agoRun podtidy on perlsource.pod
Dave Rolsky [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:37:33 +0000]
Run podtidy on perlsource.pod

14 months agoAdd a missing word to perlsource.pod
Dave Rolsky [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:37:18 +0000]
Add a missing word to perlsource.pod

14 months agoFix POD issues
Abigail [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:58:34 +0000]
Fix POD issues