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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2004-03-13 21:16:59 +0000 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2004-03-13 21:16:59 +0000 |
commit | f15752a524e132bcba8293837a456fb70f6471d9 (patch) | |
tree | 1a9f2982799bc822efbe1df53ae1ba4036e71a26 /pod/perl591delta.pod | |
parent | 8ddf3c29f29cc3b45d03f4fd9b9e222dbe43d8ae (diff) | |
download | perl-f15752a524e132bcba8293837a456fb70f6471d9.tar.gz |
More small perldelta updates.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22496
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diff --git a/pod/perl591delta.pod b/pod/perl591delta.pod index a0c966badc..e450332c58 100644 --- a/pod/perl591delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl591delta.pod @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.1 =head1 DESCRIPTION -This document describes differences between the 5.9.0 release and -the 5.9.1 release. See L<perl590delta> for the differences between +This document describes differences between the 5.9.0 and the 5.9.1 +developement releases. See L<perl590delta> for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.0. =head1 Incompatible Changes @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ they are called for. Previously callbacks were only invoked in the C<case $variable $define)> branch. This change should only affect platform maintainers writing configuration hints files. -The portability and clealiness of the Win32 makefiles has been improved. +The portability and cleanliness of the Win32 makefiles has been improved. =head1 Known Problems @@ -258,19 +258,18 @@ list of things to do (or nice to have) for perl 5.10.0 : Clean up and finish support for assertions. See L<assertions>. Reimplement the mechanism of lexical pragmas to be more extensible. Fix -current pragmas that don't work well with lexical scopes or in -eval(STRING) (C<sort>, C<re> for example). MJD has ideas on this. +current pragmas that don't work well (or at all) with lexical scopes or in +run-time eval(STRING) (C<sort>, C<re>, C<encoding> for example). MJD has a +preliminary patch that implements this. Fix (or rewrite) the implementation of the C</(?{...})/> closures. Conversions from byte strings to UTF-8 currently map high bit characters to Unicode without translation (or, depending on how you look at it, by -implicitly assuming the byte strings are in Latin-1). This is wrong, -because perl assumes the C locale by default. Thus upgrading a string to -UTF-8 (esp. in place) may change the meaning of its contents regarding -character classes, case mapping, etc. Try to find a way to fix it without -breaking all the legacy code out there (and without making the life of the -XS coders miserable.) +implicitly assuming that the byte strings are in Latin-1). As perl assumes +the C locale by default, upgrading a string to UTF-8 may change the +meaning of its contents regarding character classes, case mapping, etc. +This should probably emit a warning (at least). Introduce a new special block, UNITCHECK, which is run at the end of a compilation unit (module, file, eval(STRING) block). This will correspond to @@ -300,7 +299,7 @@ A ponie. If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://bugs.perl.org/ . There may also be -information at http://www.perl.com/ , the Perl Home Page. +information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page. If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down |