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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-07-14 03:29:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-07-14 03:29:25 +0000 |
| commit | 1a159553554948091ed2e3b1cf5953ca46e63bc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e4174ce55dac65e35f97a6b0955fe6f67e1a71e | |
| parent | 05fc92f103e6b2c614e47ffd2b374aa5fcc8327a (diff) | |
| download | perl-1a159553554948091ed2e3b1cf5953ca46e63bc5.tar.gz | |
minor tweaks to perldelta and README.win32
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1466
| -rw-r--r-- | Changes | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 7 |
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@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ Version 5.004_73 Developer release working toward 5.005 ---------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 1464] By: gsar on 1998/07/13 04:41:07 + Log: up patchlevel to 73, update Changes &c. + Branch: perl + ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod t/op/array.t + ! win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc + ! win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk +____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1463] By: gsar on 1998/07/13 02:58:51 Log: avoid empty rm -f in MM_Unix.pm Branch: perl diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index fbcfe3c68f..3ba6d2e323 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -575,6 +575,15 @@ currently be considered unsupported. =item * +C<kill()> is implemented, but doesn't have the semantics of +C<raise()>, i.e. it doesn't send a signal to the identified process +like it does on Unix platforms. Instead it immediately calls +C<TerminateProcess(process,signal)>. Thus the signal argument is +used to set the exit-status of the terminated process. This behavior +may change in future. + +=item * + File globbing may not behave as on Unix platforms. In particular, if you don't use perlglob.bat for globbing, it will understand wildcards only in the filename component (and not in the pathname). diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 779de934ab..c5104b0e27 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -216,6 +216,13 @@ people to work on those issues. See L<perlfunc/prototype>. +=head2 Extended support for exception handling + +C<die()> now accepts a reference value, and C<$@> gets set to that +value in exception traps. This makes it possible to propagate +exception objects. See L<perlfunc/eval>. [XXX there's nothing +about this in perlfunc/eval yet.] + =head2 Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods See L<perlobj/Destructors>. |