Update IO-Compress to CPAN version 2.040

[perl5.git] / pod / perlport.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 9b34ef2..5f266f9 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ format.
 Don't assume that the epoch starts at 00:00:00, January 1, 1970,
 because that is OS- and implementation-specific.  It is better to
 store a date in an unambiguous representation.  The ISO 8601 standard
-defines YYYY-MM-DD as the date format, or YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SS
+defines YYYY-MM-DD as the date format, or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS
 (that's a literal "T" separating the date from the time).
 Please do use the ISO 8601 instead of making us guess what
 date 02/03/04 might be.  ISO 8601 even sorts nicely as-is.
@@ -689,10 +689,6 @@ If your code is destined for systems with severely constrained (or
 missing!) virtual memory systems then you want to be I<especially> mindful
 of avoiding wasteful constructs such as:
 
-    # NOTE: this is no longer "bad" in perl5.005
-    for (0..10000000) {}                       # bad
-    for (my $x = 0; $x <= 10000000; ++$x) {}   # good
-
     my @lines = <$very_large_file>;            # bad
 
     while (<$fh>) {$file .= $_}                # sometimes bad
@@ -1394,8 +1390,8 @@ subdirectories named after the suffix.  Hence files are translated:
 The Unix emulation library's translation of filenames to native assumes
 that this sort of translation is required, and it allows a user-defined list
 of known suffixes that it will transpose in this fashion.  This may
-seem transparent, but consider that with these rules C<foo/bar/baz.h>
-and C<foo/bar/h/baz> both map to C<foo.bar.h.baz>, and that C<readdir> and
+seem transparent, but consider that with these rules F<foo/bar/baz.h>
+and F<foo/bar/h/baz> both map to F<foo.bar.h.baz>, and that C<readdir> and
 C<glob> cannot and do not attempt to emulate the reverse mapping.  Other
 C<.>'s in filenames are translated to C</>.
 
@@ -2119,6 +2115,8 @@ at L<http://www.cpan.org/src>
 
 =item FreeBSD
 
+=item Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
+
 =item Haiku
 
 =item Irix (6.5. What else?)
@@ -2139,7 +2137,6 @@ Caveats:
 
 =back
 
-
 =item Symbian (Series 60 v3, 3.2 and 5 - what else?)
 
 =item Stratus VOS / OpenVOS
@@ -2313,7 +2310,7 @@ L<http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html> for binary distributions.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
-L<perlaix>, L<perlamiga>, L<perlapollo>, L<perlbeos>, L<perlbs2000>,
+L<perlaix>, L<perlamiga>, L<perlbeos>, L<perlbs2000>,
 L<perlce>, L<perlcygwin>, L<perldgux>, L<perldos>, L<perlepoc>,
 L<perlebcdic>, L<perlfreebsd>, L<perlhurd>, L<perlhpux>, L<perlirix>,
 L<perlmacos>, L<perlmacosx>, L<perlmpeix>,
@@ -2356,5 +2353,5 @@ Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>,
 Paul J. Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>,
 Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>,
 Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>,
-Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>.
+Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>,
 John Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net>