X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/96090e4f0acf1d24051c680595b4740bd24cb69a..ad4795e78e923065898354b946437030aaeca163:/pod/perlport.pod diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 9b34ef2..5f266f9 100644 --- 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 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 -and C both map to C, and that C and +seem transparent, but consider that with these rules F +and F both map to F, and that C and C 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 =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 for binary distributions. =head1 SEE ALSO -L, L, L, L, L, +L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, L, @@ -2356,5 +2353,5 @@ Gurusamy Sarathy , Paul J. Schinder , Michael G Schwern , Dan Sugalski , -Nathan Torkington . +Nathan Torkington , John Malmberg