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author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-05-04 14:03:58 +0000 |
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committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-05-04 14:03:58 +0000 |
commit | 43d4bbc899d37eb18389db025e03eda26e08e8f7 (patch) | |
tree | eac20e59f4d991a76dace61453cb94e4ab0ab444 /pod/perl571delta.pod | |
parent | 443572f53eddefca4df989a086a52c32f1745d81 (diff) | |
download | perl-43d4bbc899d37eb18389db025e03eda26e08e8f7.tar.gz |
Introduce perl572delta, update Todo, add the missing
mention about signal safety since 5.7.1 (though this
requires verification and more details.)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9989
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl571delta.pod b/pod/perl571delta.pod index 502387e9ec..9a069beebb 100644 --- a/pod/perl571delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl571delta.pod @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This document describes differences between the 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release. (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 -release, see L<perl570delta>). +release, see L<perl570delta>.) =head1 Security Vulnerability Closed @@ -62,13 +62,15 @@ natively, ASCII or EBCDIC, unless GLOB_ALPHASORT is specified.) =head1 Core Enhancements -=over 4 - -=item * +=head1 AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable AUTOLOAD is now lvaluable, meaning that you can add the :lvalue attribute to AUTOLOAD subroutines and you can assign to the AUTOLOAD return value. +=head2 PerlIO is Now The Default + +=over 4 + =item * IO is now by default done via PerlIO rather than system's "stdio". @@ -192,6 +194,11 @@ C<\s> doesn't.) =back +=head2 Signals Are Now Safe + +Perl used to be fragile in that signals arriving at inopportune moments +could corrupt Perl's internal state. + =head1 Modules and Pragmata =head2 New Modules |