L<Attribute prototype(%s) discards earlier prototype attribute in same sub|perldiag/"Attribute prototype(%s) discards earlier prototype attribute in same sub">
-(W misc) A sub was declared as sub foo : prototype(A) : prototype(B) {}, for
+(W misc) A sub was declared as C<sub foo : prototype(A) : prototype(B) {}>, for
example. Since each sub can only have one prototype, the earlier
declaration(s) are discarded while the last one is applied.
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-Warnings and errors from the regexp engine are now UTF-8 clean
+Warnings and errors from the regexp engine are now UTF-8 clean.
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C<utf8_to_uvuni_buf> (use C<utf8_to_uvchr_buf> instead),
C<valid_utf8_to_uvuni> (use C<utf8_to_uvchr_buf> instead),
C<NATIVE_TO_NEED> (this did not work properly anyway),
-and C<ASCII_TO_NEED> (this did not work properly anyway).
+and C<ASCII_TO_NEED> (this did not work properly anyway).
Starting in this release, almost never does application code need to
distinguish between the platform's character set and Latin1, on which the
internal Perl code. Applications that need to use older Perls can
discover if the embedded Perl they are using needs the workaround by
testing that the C preprocessor symbol C<HAS_SKIP_LOCALE_INIT> is not
-defined. (RT #38193)
+defined. [RT #38193]
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-Regexp Engine Changes That Affect The Pluggable Regex Engine Interface
+Regexp engine changes that affect the pluggable regex engine interface
Many flags that used to be exposed via regexp.h and used to populate the
extflags member of struct regexp have been removed. These fields were
The obscure interpreter variable C<PL_timesbuf> is expected to be removed
early in the 5.21.x development series, so that Perl 5.22.0 will not provide
-it to XS authors. While the variable still exists in 5.20.0), we hope that
+it to XS authors. While the variable still exists in 5.20.0, we hope that
this advance warning of the deprecation will help anyone who is using that
variable.
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-C<./Configure -de -Dusevendorprefix> didn't default [RT #64126]
+C<./Configure -de -Dusevendorprefix> didn't default. [RT #64126]
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Stringification of NVs are not cached so that the lexical locale controls
-stringification of the decimal point [perl #108378] [perl #115800]
+stringification of the decimal point. [perl #108378] [perl #115800]
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