X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/ed423f7afb5038546a92d00ca689992f3e08bc61..61bfcae1742705b6c456ff1777236282ff285652:/pod/perl58delta.pod diff --git a/pod/perl58delta.pod b/pod/perl58delta.pod index f66c126..9777b55 100644 --- a/pod/perl58delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl58delta.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0 +perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0 =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ to be aliases for d/f, but you never knew that.) The list of filenames from glob() (or <...>) is now by default sorted alphabetically to be csh-compliant (which is what happened before -in most UNIX platforms). (bsd_glob() does still sort platform +in most Unix platforms). (bsd_glob() does still sort platform natively, ASCII or EBCDIC, unless GLOB_ALPHASORT is specified.) [561] =head2 Deprecations @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ The built-in layers are: unix (low level read/write), stdio (as in previous Perls), perlio (re-implementation of stdio buffering in a portable manner), crlf (does CRLF <=> "\n" translation as on Win32, but available on any platform). A mmap layer may be available if -platform supports it (mostly UNIXes). +platform supports it (mostly Unixes). Layers to be applied by default may be specified via the 'open' pragma. @@ -415,12 +415,12 @@ for more information about UTF-8. =item * -If your environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, LANGUAGE) look -like you want to use UTF-8 (any of the the variables match C), -your STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR handles and the default open layer -(see L) are marked as UTF-8. (This feature, like other new -features that combine Unicode and I/O, work only if you are using -PerlIO, but that's the default.) +If your environment variables (LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG) look like you +want to use UTF-8 (any of the variables match C), your +STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR handles and the default open layer (see L) +are marked as UTF-8. (This feature, like other new features that +combine Unicode and I/O, work only if you are using PerlIO, but that's +the default.) Note that after this Perl really does assume that everything is UTF-8: for example if some input handle is not, Perl will probably very soon @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ 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 Miscellaneous Changes @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ The template letters are C, C, C, and C. =item * -C can now be used to force a string to UTF8. +C can now be used to force a string to UTF-8. =item * @@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ returns the number of slept seconds. =item * -The printf() and sprintf() now support parameter reordering using the +printf() and sprintf() now support parameter reordering using the C<%\d+\$> and C<*\d+\$> syntaxes. For example - print "%2\$s %1\$s\n", "foo", "bar"; + printf "%2\$s %1\$s\n", "foo", "bar"; will print "bar foo\n". This feature helps in writing internationalised software, and in general when the order @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ for details. [561] =item * -L now supports C to change the +L now supports C to change the file timestamps to the current time. =item * @@ -1012,10 +1012,11 @@ in quoted-printable encoding, as defined in RFC 2045 - I. @@ -1504,7 +1505,7 @@ perl.org, not perl.com. =item * C has been rewritten and its user interface (that is, -command line) is much more like that of the UNIX C compiler, cc. +command line) is much more like that of the Unix C compiler, cc. (The perlbc tools has been removed. Use C instead.) B [561] @@ -1530,7 +1531,7 @@ C now produces XHTML 1.0. =item * C now understands POD written using different line endings -(PC-like CRLF versus UNIX-like LF versus MacClassic-like CR). +(PC-like CRLF versus Unix-like LF versus MacClassic-like CR). =item * @@ -1904,17 +1905,17 @@ for site-wide changes). If your file system supports symbolic links, you can build Perl outside of the source directory by - mkdir /tmp/perl/build/directory - cd /tmp/perl/build/directory + mkdir perl/build/directory + cd perl/build/directory sh /path/to/perl/source/Configure -Dmksymlinks ... -This will create in /tmp/perl/build/directory a tree of symbolic links +This will create in perl/build/directory a tree of symbolic links pointing to files in /path/to/perl/source. The original files are left unaffected. After Configure has finished, you can just say make all test -and Perl will be built and tested, all in /tmp/perl/build/directory. +and Perl will be built and tested, all in perl/build/directory. [561] =item * @@ -2082,7 +2083,7 @@ available. See L. [561+] =item * -The Amdahl UTS UNIX mainframe platform is now supported. [561] +The Amdahl UTS Unix mainframe platform is now supported. [561] =item * @@ -2474,7 +2475,7 @@ C, C, and C now match titlecase. Concatenation with the C<.> operator or via variable interpolation, C, C, C, C, the C operator, -substitution with C, single-quoted UTF8, should now work. +substitution with C, single-quoted UTF-8, should now work. =item * @@ -2903,11 +2904,11 @@ Using negative offset for vec() in lvalue context is now a warnable offense. =item * -Odd number of arguments to oveload::constant now elicits a warning. +Odd number of arguments to overload::constant now elicits a warning. =item * -Odd number of elements to in anonymous hash now elicits a warning. +Odd number of elements in anonymous hash now elicits a warning. =item * @@ -2928,7 +2929,7 @@ is made, a warning is given. =item * C and C (with no values to push or unshift) -now give a warning. This may be a problem for generated and evaled +now give a warning. This may be a problem for generated and eval'ed code. =item * @@ -2991,7 +2992,7 @@ Using splice() past the end of an array now causes a warning. =item * Malformed Unicode encodings (UTF-8 and UTF-16) cause a lot of warnings, -ad doestrying to use UTF-16 surrogates (which are unimplemented). +as does trying to use UTF-16 surrogates (which are unimplemented). =item * @@ -3361,7 +3362,7 @@ use the bundled C compiler.) Perl 5.8.0 doesn't build in AmigaOS. It broke at some point during the ithreads work and we could not find Amiga experts to unbreak the -problems. Perl 5.6.1 still works for AmigaOS (as does the the 5.7.2 +problems. Perl 5.6.1 still works for AmigaOS (as does the 5.7.2 development release). =head2 BeOS @@ -3400,6 +3401,10 @@ failures are expected: NDBM_File fails and ODBM_File just coredumps. +If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on FAT), +run Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent +NDBM_File and ODBM_File being built. + =head2 DJGPP Failures t/op/stat............................FAILED at test 29 @@ -3540,6 +3545,12 @@ be exact. (They produce something other than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using the printf format "%.0f"; most often, they produce "0" and "-0".) +=head2 SCO + +The socketpair tests are known to be unhappy in SCO 3.2v5.0.4: + + ext/Socket/socketpair.t...............FAILED tests 15-45 + =head2 Solaris 2.5 In case you are still using Solaris 2.5 (aka SunOS 5.5), you may @@ -3620,7 +3631,9 @@ return only three values, not four. =head2 UTS -There are a few known test failures, see L (README.uts). +There are a few known test failures. (B the relevant information was +available in F until support for UTS was removed in Perl +v5.18.0) =head2 VOS (Stratus) @@ -3690,7 +3703,7 @@ from the CPAN. Perl 5.8 unfortunately does not build anymore on AmigaOS; this broke accidentally at some point. Since there are not that many Amiga developers available, we could not get this fixed and tested in time -for 5.8.0. Perl 5.6.1 still works for AmigaOS (as does the the 5.7.2 +for 5.8.0. Perl 5.6.1 still works for AmigaOS (as does the 5.7.2 development release). The C and C (capitalised) were renamed as