5.002 beta 1

If you're adventurous, have a look at

    ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.002beta1.tar.gz

Many thanks to Andy for doing the integration.

Obviously, if you consult the bugs database, you'll note there are
still plenty of buglets that need fixing, and several enhancements that
I've intended to put in still haven't made it in (Hi, Tim and Ilya).
But I think it'll be pretty stable.  And you can start to fiddle around
with prototypes (which are, of course, still totally undocumented).

Packrats, don't worry too much about readvertising this widely.
Nowadays we're on a T1 here, so our bandwidth is okay.

Have the appropriate amount of jollity.

Larry

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index 3664ab6402..f0504c4271 100644
--- a/pod/perl.pod
+++ b/pod/perl.pod
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ of sections:
     perlvar	Perl predefined variables
     perlsub	Perl subroutines
     perlmod	Perl modules
-    perlref	Perl references and nested data structures
+    perlref	Perl references 
+    perldsc	Perl data structures intro
+    perllol	Perl data structures: lists of lists
     perlobj	Perl objects
     perlbot	Perl OO tricks and examples
     perldebug	Perl debugging
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ of sections:
     perltrap	Perl traps for the unwary
     perlstyle	Perl style guide
     perlxs	Perl XS application programming interface
+    perlxstut	Perl XS tutorial
     perlguts	Perl internal functions for those doing extensions 
     perlcall	Perl calling conventions from C
     perlovl	Perl overloading semantics
@@ -38,21 +41,21 @@ of sections:
 (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.)
 
-Additional documentation for perl modules is available in
-the F</usr/local/lib/perl5/man/man3> directory.  You can view this
-with a man(1) program by including the following in the
-appropriate start-up files.  (You may have to adjust the path to
-match $Config{'man3dir'}.)
+Additional documentation for Perl modules is available in the
+F</usr/local/man/> directory.  Some of this is distributed standard with
+Perl, but you'll also find third-party modules there.  You should be able
+to view this with your man(1) program by including the proper directories
+in the appropriate start-up files.  To find out where these are, type:
 
-    .profile (for sh, bash or ksh users):
-	MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/lib/perl5/man
-	export MANPATH
+    perl -le 'use Config; print "@Config{man1dir,man3dir}"'
 
-    .login (for csh or tcsh users):
-	setenv MANPATH $MANPATH:/usr/local/lib/perl5/man
+If the directories were F</usr/local/man/man1> and F</usr/local/man/man3>,
+you would only need to add F</usr/local/man> to your MANPATH.  If 
+they are different, you'll have to add both stems.
 
 If that doesn't work for some reason, you can still use the
-supplied perldoc script to view module information.
+supplied F<perldoc> script to view module information.  You might
+also look into getting a replacement man program.
 
 If something strange has gone wrong with your program and you're not
 sure where you should look for help, try the B<-w> switch first.  It
@@ -202,7 +205,12 @@ used.
 
 A colon-separated list of directories in which to look for Perl library
 files before looking in the standard library and the current
-directory.  If PERL5LIB is not defined, PERLLIB is used.
+directory.  If PERL5LIB is not defined, PERLLIB is used.  When running
+taint checks (because the script was running setuid or setgid, or the
+B<-T> switch was used), neither variable is used.  The script should
+instead say
+
+    use lib "/my/directory";
 
 =item PERL5DB
 
@@ -216,7 +224,6 @@ A colon-separated list of directories in which to look for Perl library
 files before looking in the standard library and the current
 directory.  If PERL5LIB is defined, PERLLIB is not used.
 
-
 =back
 
 Apart from these, Perl uses no other environment variables, except
@@ -231,7 +238,7 @@ honest:
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
-Larry Wall <F<lwall@netlabs.com.>, with the help of oodles of other folks.
+Larry Wall E<lt><F<lwall@netlabs.com>E<gt>, with the help of oodles of other folks.
 
 =head1 FILES
 
@@ -241,6 +248,7 @@ Larry Wall <F<lwall@netlabs.com.>, with the help of oodles of other folks.
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
  a2p	awk to perl translator
+
  s2p	sed to perl translator
 
 =head1 DIAGNOSTICS
@@ -265,7 +273,8 @@ 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().
+operations such as type casting, atof() and sprintf().  The latter
+can even trigger a coredump when passed ludicrous input values.
 
 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()
@@ -277,6 +286,8 @@ given identifier may not be longer than 255 characters, and no
 component of your PATH may be longer than 255 if you use B<-S>.  A regular
 expression may not compile to more than 32767 bytes internally.
 
+See the perl bugs database at L<http://perl.com/perl/bugs/>.
+
 Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but
 don't tell anyone I said that.
 
@@ -285,6 +296,6 @@ don't tell anyone I said that.
 The Perl motto is "There's more than one way to do it."  Divining
 how many more is left as an exercise to the reader.
 
-The three principle virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
+The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
 Impatience, and Hubris.  See the Camel Book for why.