=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what's new for perl5.005
+perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Some new keywords have been introduced. These are generally expected to
have very little impact on compatibility. See L<New C<INIT> keyword>,
-L<New C<lock> keyword>, and L<New C<qr//> operator>.
+L<New C<lock> keyword>, and L<New C<qrE<sol>E<sol>> operator>.
Certain barewords are now reserved. Use of these will provoke a warning
if you have asked for them with the C<-w> switch.
names without the C<Perl_> prefix are supported with macros, but this
support may cease in a future release.
-See L<perlguts/"API LISTING">.
+See L<perlapi>.
=item *
being declared (when building a module that has XS code), you need
to add C<dTHR;> at the beginning of the block that elicited the error.
-The API function C<perl_get_sv("@",FALSE)> should be used instead of
+The API function C<perl_get_sv("@",GV_ADD)> should be used instead of
directly accessing perl globals as C<GvSV(errgv)>. The API call is
backward compatible with existing perls and provides source compatibility
with threading is enabled.
General Public License or the Artistic License (at the user's choice).
Now much of the documentation unambiguously states the terms under which
it may be distributed. Those terms are in general much less restrictive
-than the GNU GPL. See L<perl> and the individual perl man pages listed
+than the GNU GPL. See L<perl> and the individual perl manpages listed
therein.
=head1 Core Changes
=item New operator for precompiled regular expressions
-See L<New C<qr//> operator>.
+See L<New C<qrE<sol>E<sol>> operator>.
=item Other improvements
If C<$/> is a reference to an integer, or a scalar that holds an integer,
<> will read in records instead of lines. For more info, see
-L<perlvar/$/>.
+L<perlvar/$E<sol>>.
=head1 Supported Platforms
See F<README.win32>, aka L<perlwin32>.
VMS configuration system has been rewritten. See F<README.vms> (installed
-as L<README_vms> on some systems).
+as F<README_vms> on some systems).
The hints files for most Unix platforms have seen incremental improvements.
=item Test
-A framework for writing testsuites.
+A framework for writing test suites.
=item Tie::Array
You can now run tests for I<x> seconds instead of guessing the right
number of tests to run.
+Keeps better time.
+
=item Carp
Carp has a new function cluck(). cluck() warns, like carp(), but also adds
=item CPAN
-See <perlmodinstall> and L<CPAN>.
+See
L<perlmodinstall> and L<CPAN>.
=item Cwd
Cwd::cwd is faster on most platforms.
-=item Benchmark
-
-Keeps better time.
-
=back
=head1 Utility Changes
To silently interpret it as the Perl operator, use the C<CORE::> prefix
on the operator (e.g. C<CORE::log($x)>) or by declaring the subroutine
-to be an object method (see L<attrs>).
+to be an object method (see L</attrs>).
=item Bad index while coercing array into hash
(F) You said something like C<< local $ar->{'key'} >>, where $ar is
a reference to a pseudo-hash. That hasn't been implemented yet, but
you can get a similar effect by localizing the corresponding array
-element directly -- C<< local $ar->[$ar->[0]{'key'}] >>.
+element directly: C<< local $ar->[$ar->[0]{'key'}] >>.
=item Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the headers of
recently posted articles in the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.
-There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl
+There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/ , the Perl
Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff