From 191602e12c86a12a0d1951312d76ed6f588d9486 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Golden Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 22:24:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] minor perldelta improvements for 5.12.1 (cherry picked from commit ed9a37359c07a6d8b582c6c1dead720366ae1533) Signed-off-by: David Golden --- pod/perl5121delta.pod | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perl5121delta.pod b/pod/perl5121delta.pod index 16b835a..8dc218b 100644 --- a/pod/perl5121delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5121delta.pod @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ incompatibilities with 5.12.0 exist, they are bugs. Please report them. =head1 Core Enhancements Other than the bug fixes listed below, there should be no user-visible -changes to the core langauge in this release. +changes to the core language in this release. =head1 Modules and Pragmata @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ changes to the core langauge in this release. =item * -We fixed exporting of C and C +We fixed exporting of C and C from L. These were being exported with a wrapper that treated them as method -calls, which causes them to fail. They are just functions, are +calls, which caused them to fail. They are just functions, are documented as such, and should never be subclassed, so this patch just exports them directly as functions without the wrapper. @@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ parsing. =item * -We made a small fix to CPANPLUS's test suite to fix an occasional spurious test -failure. +We made a small fix to the L test suite to fix an occasional spurious test failure. =back @@ -71,7 +70,8 @@ We added the new maintenance release policy to L =item * -We've clarified the multiple-angle-bracket construct in the spec for POD. +We've clarified the multiple-angle-bracket construct in the spec for POD +in L =item * @@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ We added a missing explanation for a warning about C<:=> to L =item * -We removed a false claim that all text strings are Unicode strings in Perl. +We removed a false claim in L that all text strings are Unicode strings in Perl. =item * -GitHub's mirror is now at mirrors/perl, not github/perl +We updated the Github mirror link in L to mirrors/perl, not github/perl =item * @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ We replaced a mention of the now-obsolete L with F/F. =item * -We improved documentation about F<$sitelibexp/sitecustomize.pl>. +We improved documentation about F<$sitelibexp/sitecustomize.pl> in L. =item * -We corrected L which had unintentionally ommitted a number of modules. +We corrected L which had unintentionally omitted a number of modules. =item * @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ We updated the documentation for 'require' in L relating to puttin =item * -We reinstated some erroneously-removed documentation about quotemeta. +We reinstated some erroneously-removed documentation about quotemeta in L. =item * @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ on OpenSUSE (and possibly other platforms) =item * A bug in how we process filetest operations could cause a segfault. -Filetest don't always expect an op on the stack, so we now use +Filetests don't always expect an op on the stack, so we now use TOPs only if we're sure that we're not stat'ing the _ filehandle. This is indicated by OPf_KIDS (as checked in ck_ftst). @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ See also: L =item * We fixed a small bug in lex_stuff_pvn() that caused spurious syntax errors -in an obscure situation. It happend when stuffing was s performed on the +in an obscure situation. It happened when stuffing was performed on the last line of a file and the line ended with a statement that lacked a terminating semicolon. @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ See also: L =item * We fixed a regression in the handling of labels immediately before string -evals introduced in Perl 5.12.0. +evals that was introduced in Perl 5.12.0. See also: L @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ interactively and explicitly answered no. =head1 Acknowledgements Perl 5.12.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since -Perl 5.12.0 and contains approximately about 4,000 lines of changes +Perl 5.12.0 and contains approximately 4,000 lines of changes across 142 files from 28 authors. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant -- 1.8.3.1