[inseperable changes from patch from perl-5.003_95 to perl-5.003_86]

[editor's note: this commit was prepared manually so may differ in
minor ways to other inseperable changes commits]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

  Title:  "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod

  Title:  "Implement void context, in which C<wantarray> is undef"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c
          pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
          pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
          pp_sys.c proto.h

  Title:  "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod
          pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t

  Title:  "Allow closures to be constant subroutines"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Make C<scalar(reverse)> mean C<scalar(reverse $_)>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp.c

  Title:  "Fix lexical suicide from C<my $x = $x> in sub"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  op.c

  Title:  "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

  Title:  "safefree() mismatch"
   From:  Roderick Schertler
 Msg-ID:  <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
   Date:  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500
  Files:  util.c

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id 9b9b466fb02dc96c81439bafbb3b2da55238cfd2)

  Title:  "Win32 update (seven patches)"
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
  Files:  EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak
          win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl
          win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

  Title:  "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.c utils/perlbug.PL

  Title:  "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no>
   Date:  Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200
  Files:  perl.c

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id b6c639e4b1912ad03b9b10ba9518d96bd0a6cfaf)

  Title:  "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t

  Title:  "Fix autoviv bug in C<my $x; ++$x->{KEY}>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pp_hot.c

  Title:  "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST)
  Files:  pp.c

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id d7d933a26349f945f93b2f0dbf85b773d8ca3219)

  Title:  "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem "
   From:  Gurusamy Sarathy
 Msg-ID:  <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500
  Files:  gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id f289f7d2518e7a8a82114282e774adf50fa6ce85)

  Title:  "Define and use new macro: boolSV()"
   From:  Tim Bunce
  Files:  gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
          sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c

  Title:  "Re: strict @F"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  toke.c

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id dfd44a5c8c8dd4c001c595debfe73d011a96d844)

  Title:  "Try harder to identify errors at EOF"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  toke.c

  Title:  "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'"
   From:  lvirden@cas.org
 Msg-ID:  <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST)
  Files:  toke.c

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id 9b56c8f8085a9e773ad87c6b3c1d0b5e39dbc348)

  Title:  "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldiag.pod toke.c

  Title:  "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  perl.h pp_sys.c

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

  Title:  "New module constant.pm"
   From:  Tom Phoenix
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t

  Title:  "Remove chat2"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl

  Title:  "Include CGI.pm 2.32"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm
          lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm
          lib/CGI/Switch.pm

 UTILITIES

  Title:  "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL

  Title:  "Fix path bugs in installhtml"
   From:  Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
 Msg-ID:  <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
   Date:  Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT
  Files:  installhtml

  Title:  "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  utils/perlbug.PL

 DOCUMENTATION

  Title:  "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

  Title:  "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again"
   From:  Hallvard B Furuseth
 Msg-ID:  <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no>
   Date:  Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET)
  Files:  pod/perldelta.pod

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id 4176c059b9ba6b022e99c44270434a5c3e415b73)

  Title:  "Improve and update documentation of constant subs"
   From:  Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
 Msg-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331122546.14185C-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
   Date:  Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "Improve documentation of C<return>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod

  Title:  "perlfunc.pod patch"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100
  Files:  pod/perlfunc.pod

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id 35a731fcbcd7860eb497d6598f3f77b8746319c4)

  Title:  "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per <gnat@frii.com>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod
          pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod
          pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat

  Title:  "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t

  Title:  "Update docs on $]"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlvar.pod

  Title:  "perlvar.pod patch"
   From:  Gisle Aas
 Msg-ID:  <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100
  Files:  pod/perlvar.pod

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id 0aa182cb0caa3829032904b9754807b1b7418509)

  Title:  "Fix example of C<or> vs. C<||>"
   From:  Chip Salzenberg
  Files:  pod/perlsyn.pod

  Title:  "Pod usage and spelling patch"
   From:  Larry W. Virden
  Files:  pod/*.pod

  Title:  "Pod updates"
   From:  "Cary D. Renzema" <caryr@mxim.com>
 Msg-ID:  <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com>
   Date:  Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST)
  Files:  pod/*.pod

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit id 5695b28edc67a3f45e8a0f25755d07afef3660ac)

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index b69e77e3d7..2a43319b51 100644
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -145,12 +145,12 @@ type "filehandle", or anything else.  Perl is a contextually polymorphic
 language whose scalars can be strings, numbers, or references (which
 includes objects).  While strings and numbers are considered pretty
 much the same thing for nearly all purposes, references are strongly-typed
-uncastable pointers with built-in reference-counting and destructor
+uncastable pointers with builtin reference-counting and destructor
 invocation.
 
 A scalar value is interpreted as TRUE in the Boolean sense if it is not
 the null string or the number 0 (or its string equivalent, "0").  The
-Boolean context is just a special kind of scalar context.  
+Boolean context is just a special kind of scalar context.
 
 There are actually two varieties of null scalars: defined and
 undefined.  Undefined null scalars are returned when there is no real
@@ -160,14 +160,14 @@ array.  An undefined null scalar may become defined the first time you
 use it as if it were defined, but prior to that you can use the
 defined() operator to determine whether the value is defined or not.
 
-To find out whether a given string is a valid non-zero number, it's usually
+To find out whether a given string is a valid nonzero number, it's usually
 enough to test it against both numeric 0 and also lexical "0" (although
 this will cause B<-w> noises).  That's because strings that aren't
 numbers count as 0, just as they do in B<awk>:
 
     if ($str == 0 && $str ne "0")  {
 	warn "That doesn't look like a number";
-    } 
+    }
 
 That's usually preferable because otherwise you won't treat IEEE notations
 like C<NaN> or C<Infinity> properly.  At other times you might prefer to
@@ -176,9 +176,9 @@ for details on regular expressions.
 
     warn "has nondigits"	if     /\D/;
     warn "not a whole number"   unless /^\d+$/;
-    warn "not an integer"       unless /^[+-]?\d+$/     
-    warn "not a decimal number" unless /^[+-]?\d+\.?\d*$/ 
-    warn "not a C float" 
+    warn "not an integer"       unless /^[+-]?\d+$/
+    warn "not a decimal number" unless /^[+-]?\d+\.?\d*$/
+    warn "not a C float"
 	unless /^([+-]?)(?=\d|\.\d)\d*(\.\d*)?([Ee]([+-]?\d+))?$/;
 
 The length of an array is a scalar value.  You may find the length of
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ say
 
 then any bareword that would NOT be interpreted as a subroutine call
 produces a compile-time error instead.  The restriction lasts to the
-end of the enclosing block.  An inner block may countermand this 
+end of the enclosing block.  An inner block may countermand this
 by saying C<no strict 'subs'>.
 
 Array variables are interpolated into double-quoted strings by joining all
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ identifier, which is valid, and matches the first empty line.)  The
 terminating string must appear by itself (unquoted and with no
 surrounding whitespace) on the terminating line.
 
-	print <<EOF;	
+	print <<EOF;
     The price is $Price.
     EOF
 
@@ -369,11 +369,11 @@ surrounding whitespace) on the terminating line.
     Here's a line
     or two.
     THIS
-    and here another.
+    and here's another.
     THAT
 
-Just don't forget that you have to put a semicolon on the end 
-to finish the statement, as Perl doesn't know you're not going to 
+Just don't forget that you have to put a semicolon on the end
+to finish the statement, as Perl doesn't know you're not going to
 try to do this:
 
 	print <<ABC
@@ -401,12 +401,12 @@ assigns the entire list value to array foo, but
 
 assigns the value of variable bar to variable foo.  Note that the value
 of an actual array in a scalar context is the length of the array; the
-following assigns to $foo the value 3:
+following assigns the value 3 to $foo:
 
     @foo = ('cc', '-E', $bar);
     $foo = @foo;		# $foo gets 3
 
-You may have an optional comma before the closing parenthesis of an
+You may have an optional comma before the closing parenthesis of a
 list literal, so that you can say:
 
     @foo = (
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ interpolating an array with no elements is the same as if no
 array had been interpolated at that point.
 
 A list value may also be subscripted like a normal array.  You must
-put the list in parentheses to avoid ambiguity.  Examples:
+put the list in parentheses to avoid ambiguity.  For example:
 
     # Stat returns list value.
     $time = (stat($file))[8];
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ or for initializing hash references to be used as records:
 
 or for using call-by-named-parameter to complicated functions:
 
-   $field = $query->radio_group( 
+   $field = $query->radio_group(
 	       name      => 'group_name',
                values    => ['eenie','meenie','minie'],
                default   => 'meenie',
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ of how to arrange for an output ordering.
 
 Perl uses an internal type called a I<typeglob> to hold an entire
 symbol table entry.  The type prefix of a typeglob is a C<*>, because
-it represents all types.  This used to be the preferred way to 
+it represents all types.  This used to be the preferred way to
 pass arrays and hashes by reference into a function, but now that
 we have real references, this is seldom needed.  It also used to be the
 preferred way to pass filehandles into a function, but now