X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/f102b8834494e736221c17057fae0f964511ea18..a3cb178b0bad32fa8be934503d051b96a3cb1fea:/pod/perl.pod diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index c7b8452..a7e02f6 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ of sections: perl Perl overview (this section) perldelta Perl changes since previous version perlfaq Perl frequently asked questions + perltoc Perl documentation table of contents perldata Perl data structures perlsyn Perl syntax @@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ of sections: perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions perlcall Perl calling conventions from C + perlhist Perl history records + (If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time, the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.) @@ -242,6 +245,11 @@ See L. Larry Wall >, with the help of oodles of other folks. +If your Perl success stories and testimonials may be of help to others +who wish to advocate the use of Perl in their applications, +or if you wish to simply express your gratitude to Larry and the +Perl developers, please write to >. + =head1 FILES "/tmp/perl-e$$" temporary file for -e commands @@ -275,8 +283,8 @@ switch? The B<-w> switch is not mandatory. Perl is at the mercy of your machine's definitions of various -operations such as type casting, atof(), and sprintf(). The latter -can even trigger a core dump when passed ludicrous input values. +operations such as type casting, atof(), and floating-point +output with sprintf(). If your stdio requires a seek or eof between reads and writes on a particular stream, so does Perl. (This doesn't apply to sysread()