consting for .c files in tests

[perl5.git] / pod / perl561delta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perl561delta.pod b/pod/perl561delta.pod
index cc411dc..4aa9474 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perl561delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl561delta.pod
@@ -343,9 +343,10 @@ C<Configure -S> can be run non-interactively.
 
 =head2 Documentation
 
-README.aix, README.solaris and README.macos have been added.  README.posix-bc
-has been renamed to README.bs2000.  These are installed as L<perlaix>,
-L<perlsolaris>, L<perlmacos>, and L<perlbs2000> respectively.
+README.aix, README.solaris and README.macos have been added.
+README.posix-bc has been renamed to README.bs2000.  These are
+installed as L<perlaix>, L<perlsolaris>, L<perlmacos>, and
+L<perlbs2000> respectively.
 
 The following pod documents are brand new:
 
@@ -502,7 +503,7 @@ You will need a thread library package installed.  See README.hpux.
 
 Long doubles should now work under Linux.
 
-MacOS Classic is now supported in the mainstream source package.
+Mac OS Classic is now supported in the mainstream source package.
 See README.macos.
 
 Support for MPE/iX has been updated.  See README.mpeix.
@@ -762,13 +763,13 @@ as requiring an automatic lock() when it is entered, you had to declare
 that with a C<use attrs> pragma in the body of the subroutine.
 That can now be accomplished with declaration syntax, like this:
 
-    sub mymethod : locked method ;
+    sub mymethod : locked method;
     ...
     sub mymethod : locked method {
        ...
     }
 
-    sub othermethod :locked :method ;
+    sub othermethod :locked :method;
     ...
     sub othermethod :locked :method {
        ...
@@ -1387,6 +1388,12 @@ C<fred.com> if you don't backslash the C<@>.
 See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/at-error.html for more details
 about the history here.
 
+=head2 @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex submatches
+
+The new magic variables @- and @+ provide the starting and ending
+offsets, respectively, of $&, $1, $2, etc.  See L<perlvar> for
+details.
+
 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
 
 =head2 Modules
@@ -1402,7 +1409,7 @@ See L<attributes>.
 =item B
 
 The Perl Compiler suite has been extensively reworked for this
-release.  More of the standard Perl testsuite passes when run
+release.  More of the standard Perl test suite passes when run
 under the Compiler, but there is still a significant way to
 go to achieve production quality compiled executables.
 
@@ -3444,7 +3451,7 @@ is executed:
 
 =over
 
-=item 
+=item *
 
 64-bit builds
 
@@ -3459,7 +3466,7 @@ in 64-bit HP-UX.  The test attempts to create and connect to
 
 Note that 64-bit support is still experimental.
 
-=item 
+=item *
 
 Failure of Thread tests
 
@@ -3468,7 +3475,7 @@ fundamental problems in the 5.005 threading implementation.  These are
 not new failures--Perl 5.005_0x has the same bugs, but didn't have these
 tests.  (Note that support for 5.005-style threading remains experimental.)
 
-=item
+=item *
 
 NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
 
@@ -3477,7 +3484,7 @@ operating system libraries is buggy: the %j format numbers the days of
 a month starting from zero, which, while being logical to programmers,
 will cause the subtests 19 to 27 of the lib/posix test may fail.
 
-=item 
+=item *
 
 Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with gcc