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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-03-20 14:43:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-03-20 14:43:11 +0000 |
| commit | 2bcb0b458af1bb38a0b8ec0ec995e3cb497c1e1c (patch) | |
| tree | 911276f0631f24a7e71517f30a256c47c6df8349 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | a7b657eec5c9a956f5411ffb5c1dacbd8d5b6c1b (diff) | |
| download | perl-2bcb0b458af1bb38a0b8ec0ec995e3cb497c1e1c.tar.gz | |
Mention the external modules Encode::HanExtra and
PadWalker.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15364
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 8ea2a49d68..bd90dde23a 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -627,9 +627,11 @@ included since its further use is discouraged. C<Encode>, by Nick Ing-Simmons, provides a mechanism to translate between different character encodings. Support for Unicode, ISO-8859-*, ASCII, CP*, KOI8-R, and three variants of EBCDIC are -compiled in to the module. Several other encodings (like Japanese, -Chinese, and MacIntosh encodings) are included and will be loaded at -runtime. See L<Encode>. +compiled in to the module. Several other encodings (like Chinese, +Japanese, Korean, and MacIntosh encodings) are included and will be +loaded at runtime. (For space considerations, the largest Chinese +encodings have been separated into their own CPAN module, +Encode::HanExtra). See L<Encode>. Any encoding supported by Encode module is also available to the ":encoding()" layer if PerlIO is used. @@ -2377,11 +2379,11 @@ respectively. =item * -perl5db.pl has been modified to present a more consistent commands -interface, via (CommandSet=580). perl5db.t was also added to test the -changes, and as a placeholder for further tests. +The debugger (perl5db.pl) has been modified to present a more +consistent commands interface, via (CommandSet=580). perl5db.t was +also added to test the changes, and as a placeholder for further tests. -See L<perldebug> +See L<perldebug>. =item * @@ -2392,6 +2394,11 @@ depth of at most I<N> levels. =item * +The debugger can now show lexical variables if you have the CPAN +module PadWalker installed. + +=item * + If an attempt to use a (non-blessed) reference as an array index is made, a warning is given. |