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author | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-05-09 22:24:15 -0400 |
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committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-06-29 22:08:12 -0400 |
commit | 191602e12c86a12a0d1951312d76ed6f588d9486 (patch) | |
tree | 495fa9d9c2238df7b27cbede7fd2a381be1a6069 /pod/perl5121delta.pod | |
parent | 47ad5051d24f11386e5f4284a544a8fd16fcc9d3 (diff) | |
download | perl-191602e12c86a12a0d1951312d76ed6f588d9486.tar.gz |
minor perldelta improvements for 5.12.1
(cherry picked from commit ed9a37359c07a6d8b582c6c1dead720366ae1533)
Signed-off-by: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perl5121delta.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perl5121delta.pod | 30 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl5121delta.pod b/pod/perl5121delta.pod index 16b835a788..8dc218b1e4 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<version::is_strict> and C<version::is_lax> +We fixed exporting of C<is_strict> and C<is_lax> from L<version>. 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<CPANPLUS> test suite to fix an occasional spurious test failure. =back @@ -71,7 +70,8 @@ We added the new maintenance release policy to L<perlpolicy.pod> =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<perlpodspec> =item * @@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ We added a missing explanation for a warning about C<:=> to L<perldiag.pod> =item * -We removed a false claim that all text strings are Unicode strings in Perl. +We removed a false claim in L<perlunitut> 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<perlrepository> to mirrors/perl, not github/perl =item * @@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ We replaced a mention of the now-obsolete L<Switch.pm> with F<given>/F<when>. =item * -We improved documentation about F<$sitelibexp/sitecustomize.pl>. +We improved documentation about F<$sitelibexp/sitecustomize.pl> in L<perlrun>. =item * -We corrected L<perlmodlib.pod> which had unintentionally ommitted a number of modules. +We corrected L<perlmodlib.pod> which had unintentionally omitted a number of modules. =item * @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ We updated the documentation for 'require' in L<perlfunc.pod> relating to puttin =item * -We reinstated some erroneously-removed documentation about quotemeta. +We reinstated some erroneously-removed documentation about quotemeta in L<perlfunc>. =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<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72704> =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<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74114> =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<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74290> @@ -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 |