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| author | Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> | 1998-12-17 07:46:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1998-12-18 14:47:57 +0000 |
| commit | 2eac2f99c0aa38226ffdf8106ff9a7bbe6139688 (patch) | |
| tree | 683c423280543fb50acb35aa397d3ec9fb2d754c /pod/perl5005delta.pod | |
| parent | 256a478117d1bc257dae045aaa79c88628b7639c (diff) | |
| download | perl-2eac2f99c0aa38226ffdf8106ff9a7bbe6139688.tar.gz | |
Address some of the issues of:
To: perl-porters-active@jhereg.perl.com
Subject: Undocumentation Issues for 5.005
Message-Id: <199812172146.OAA05316@jhereg.perl.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2489
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diff --git a/pod/perl5005delta.pod b/pod/perl5005delta.pod index 920333c1d5..053944220e 100644 --- a/pod/perl5005delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5005delta.pod @@ -589,10 +589,33 @@ Various pragmata to control behavior of regular expressions. =over +=item Benchmark + +You can now run tests for I<x> seconds instead of guessing the right +number of tests to run. + =item CGI CGI has been updated to version 2.42. +=item Fcntl + +More Fcntl constants added: F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW64, O_LARGEFILE for +large (more than 4G) file access (the 64-bit support is not yet +working, though, so no need to get overly excited), Free/Net/OpenBSD +locking behaviour flags F_FLOCK, F_POSIX, Linux F_SHLCK, and +O_ACCMODE: the mask of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR. + +=item Math::Complex + +The accessors methods Re, Im, arg, abs, rho, theta, methods can +($z->Re()) now also act as mutators ($z->Re(3)). + +=item Math::Trig + +A little bit of radial trigonometry (cylindrical and spherical) added, +for example the great circle distance. + =item POSIX POSIX now has its own platform-specific hints files. @@ -862,7 +885,7 @@ not use those settings. This was not dead serious, fortunately: there is a "default locale" called "C" that Perl can and will use, the script will be run. Before you really fix the problem, however, you will get the same error message each time you run Perl. How to really -fix the problem can be found in L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>. +fix the problem can be found in L<perllocale/"LOCALE PROBLEMS">. =back @@ -876,16 +899,22 @@ fix the problem can be found in L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>. (F) The mktemp() routine failed for some reason while trying to process a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. +Removed because B<-e> doesn't use temporary files any more. + =item Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s (F) The write routine failed for some reason while trying to process a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. +Removed because B<-e> doesn't use temporary files any more. + =item Cannot open temporary file (F) The create routine failed for some reason while trying to process a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. +Removed because B<-e> doesn't use temporary files any more. + =item regexp too big (F) The current implementation of regular expressions uses shorts as |