use quite noticeably. The C<fields> pragma interface will remain
available.
-The syntaxes C<@a->[...]> and C<@h->{...}> have now been deprecated.
+The syntaxes C<< @a->[...] >> and C<< @h->{...} >> have now been deprecated.
The suidperl is also considered to be too much a risk to continue
maintaining and the suidperl code is likely to be removed in a future
=item *
-Several MacOS (Classic) portability patches have been applied. We
+Several Mac OS (Classic) portability patches have been applied. We
hope to get a fully working port by 5.8.0. (The remaining problems
relate to the changed IO model of Perl.) See L<perlmacos>.
=item *
-MacOS X (or Darwin) should now be able to build Perl even on HFS+
+Mac OS X (or Darwin) should now be able to build Perl even on HFS+
filesystems. (The case-insensitivity confused the Perl build process.)
=item *
=item *
-The Amdahl UTS UNIX mainframe platform is now supported.
+The Amdahl UTS Unix mainframe platform is now supported.
=back
=item *
-Using arrays or hashes as references (e.g. C<%foo->{bar}> has been
+Using arrays or hashes as references (e.g. C<< %foo->{bar} >> has been
deprecated for a while. Now you will get an optional warning.
=back
frustrated at the mysterious results (core dumps, most often) it is
for now forbidden (you will get a fatal error even from an attempt).
-=head2 Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
+=head2 Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tying
This limitation will hopefully be fixed in future. (Subroutine
-attributes work fine for tieing, see L<Attribute::Handlers>).
+attributes work fine for tying, see L<Attribute::Handlers>).
=head2 Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles