X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/70693193c4b59fbb24a03491512503204199d396..d4f686ebcef0088965d36d72f49b680287c377a2:/pod/perl593delta.pod diff --git a/pod/perl593delta.pod b/pod/perl593delta.pod index 66a4630..11f53ab 100644 --- a/pod/perl593delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl593delta.pod @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +=encoding utf8 + =head1 NAME perl593delta - what is new for perl v5.9.3 @@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ details. (Contributed by Gisle Aas.) The support for assertions, introduced in perl 5.9.0, has been improved. The syntax for the C<-A> command-line switch has changed; it now accepts an optional module name, defaulting to C. See -L and L. (Contributed by Salvador Fandiño García.) +L and L. (Contributed by Salvador Fandiño García.) =head2 Unicode Character Database 4.1.0 @@ -263,7 +265,7 @@ their system dependent constants - as a result C now takes about The new compilation flag C, introduced as an option in perl 5.8.8, is turned on by default in perl 5.9.3. It prevents perl -from creating an empty scalar with every new typeglob. See L +from creating an empty scalar with every new typeglob. See L for details. =head2 Weak references are cheaper @@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ happens at program exit, it may be skipped completely. =head2 sort() enhancements -Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of C +Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of C and to speed up some cases. =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements @@ -390,7 +392,7 @@ Trailing spaces are now trimmed from C<$!> and C<$^E>. =item * -Operations that require perl to read a process' list of groups, such as reads +Operations that require perl to read a process's list of groups, such as reads of C<$(> and C<$)>, now dynamically allocate memory rather than using a fixed sized array. The fixed size array could cause C stack exhaustion on systems configured to use large numbers of groups.