+=encoding utf8
+
=head1 NAME
perl588delta - what is new for perl v5.8.8
=item *
-C<File::Spec->rootdir()> now returns C<\> on Win32, instead of C</>
+C<< File::Spec->rootdir() >> now returns C<\> on Win32, instead of C</>
=item *
=item *
-C<Unicode::Collate->new> method no longer overwrites user's C<$_>
+C<< Unicode::Collate->new >> method no longer overwrites user's C<$_>
=item *
=item *
-Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of C<sort>
+Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of C<sort>
and to speed up some cases.
=item *
=item *
-Operations that require perl to read a process' list of groups, such as reads
+Operations that require perl to read a process's list of groups, such as reads
of C<$(> and C<$)>, now dynamically allocate memory rather than using a
fixed sized array. The fixed size array could cause C stack exhaustion on
systems configured to use large numbers of groups.
=head2 Non-string passed as bitmask
-This is a new warning, produced when number has been passed as a argument to
+This is a new warning, produced when number has been passed as an argument to
select(), instead of a bitmask.
# Wrong, will now warn