X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/3e4c7cf008fe62589948871e79a9291f027aff83..d8306453385a4991e40b4738982bf9617b6c1ccf:/pod/perl561delta.pod diff --git a/pod/perl561delta.pod b/pod/perl561delta.pod index ef4caa7..1ccc85a 100644 --- a/pod/perl561delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl561delta.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x +perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.1 =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ than C<$]> (a numeric value). (This is a potential incompatibility. Send us a report via perlbug if you are affected by this.) The v1.2.3 syntax is also now legal in Perl. -See L for more on that. +See L for more on that. To cope with the new versioning system's use of at least three significant digits for each version component, the method used for incrementing the @@ -763,13 +763,13 @@ as requiring an automatic lock() when it is entered, you had to declare that with a C 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 { ... @@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ already. The fatal error has been downgraded to an optional warning: This warns you that C<"fred@example.com"> is going to turn into C if you don't backslash the C<@>. -See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/at-error.html for more details +See http://perl.plover.com/at-error.html for more details about the history here. =head2 @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex submatches @@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ See L. =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. @@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ capabilities. In other words: if your operating system has the necessary APIs and datatypes, you should be able just to go ahead and use them, for threads by Configure -Dusethreads, and for 64 bits either explicitly by Configure -Duse64bitint or implicitly if your -system has 64-bit wide datatypes. See also L<"64-bit support">. +system has 64-bit wide datatypes. See also L. =head2 Long Doubles @@ -2103,7 +2103,7 @@ Perl's scalars, use -Duselongdouble. =head2 -Dusemorebits You can enable both -Duse64bitint and -Duselongdouble with -Dusemorebits. -See also L<"64-bit support">. +See also L. =head2 -Duselargefiles @@ -2111,7 +2111,7 @@ Some platforms support system APIs that are capable of handling large files (typically, files larger than two gigabytes). Perl will try to use these APIs if you ask for -Duselargefiles. -See L<"Large file support"> for more information. +See L for more information. =head2 installusrbinperl @@ -2977,7 +2977,6 @@ You should use the new declaration syntax instead. The C pragma is now obsolete, and is only provided for backward-compatibility. See L. - =item Premature end of script headers See Server error. @@ -3364,8 +3363,8 @@ Note that the above issue is not relevant to the default build of Perl, whose interfaces continue to match those of prior versions (but subject to the other options described here). -See L for detailed information on the -ramifications of building Perl with this option. +See L for detailed information +on the ramifications of building Perl with this option. NOTE: PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT is automatically enabled whenever Perl is built with one of -Dusethreads, -Dusemultiplicity, or both. It is not