summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/pod/perldelta.pod
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-20 01:49:59 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-20 01:49:59 +0000
commit888aee597441568824c1835285c8012bab253529 (patch)
treebc30bd61d0081f82a7017ed032bf9b3fb25fe002 /pod/perldelta.pod
parentf1808fd1210b0108554ea2a91877cc75afeee658 (diff)
downloadperl-888aee597441568824c1835285c8012bab253529.tar.gz
Pass 2 at perldelta: add some changes since 5.7.2.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13114
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod84
1 files changed, 82 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index f2505e8dac..b8e312904f 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-=head1 NAME
+M=head1 NAME
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
@@ -698,6 +698,14 @@ L<Test::Simple> - Basic utilities for writing tests
=item *
+L<threads> - interpreter threads
+
+=item *
+
+L<threads::shared> - data sharing for interpreter threads
+
+=item *
+
L<Time::HiRes> - high resolution ualarm, usleep, and gettimeofday
=item *
@@ -712,7 +720,15 @@ L<Time::Seconds> - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values
=item *
-L<UnicodeCD> - Unicode Character Database
+L<Unicode::CD> - Unicode Character Database
+
+=item *
+
+Unicode::Collate - Unicode collation
+
+=item *
+
+Unicode::Normalize - Unicode normalization
=back
@@ -898,6 +914,10 @@ that the operating system will make one up.)
The L<vars> pragma now supports declaring fully qualified variables.
(Something that C<our()> does not and will not support.)
+=item *
+
+List::Util now has shuffle() for randomizing a list.
+
=back
=head1 Utility Changes
@@ -990,10 +1010,29 @@ bring them back to the fold.
=item *
+perlintro is a gentle introduction to Perl.
+
+=item *
+
+perlmodstyle is a style guide for writing modules.
+
+=item *
+
perlnewmod tells about writing and submitting a new module.
=item *
+perlpod has been rewritten to be clearer and to record the best
+practices gathered over the years.
+
+=item *
+
+perlpodstyle is a more formal specification of the pod format,
+mainly of interest for writers of pod applications, not to
+people writing in pod.
+
+=item *
+
perlposix-bc explains using Perl on the POSIX-BC platform
(an EBCDIC mainframe platform).
@@ -1008,6 +1047,16 @@ Yes, much quicker than perlretut.
=item *
+perltootc has been renamed as perltooc (to not to conflict
+with perltoot in filesystem restricted to "8.3" names)
+
+=item *
+
+perluniintro is an introduction to using Unicode in Perl
+(perlunicode is more of a reference)
+
+=item *
+
perlutil explains the command line utilities packaged with the Perl
distribution.
@@ -1340,6 +1389,33 @@ NetWare from Novell is now supported. See L<perlnetware>.
The Amdahl UTS UNIX mainframe platform is now supported.
+=item *
+
+WinCE is now supported. See L<perlce>.
+
+=item *
+
+If you have CPAN access you can during specify extra modules to
+Configure to build and install with Perl using the -Dextras=...
+option. See INSTALL for more details.
+
+=item *
+
+In addition to config.over a new override file, config.arch, is
+available. That is supposed to be used by hints file writers for
+architecture-wide changes (as opposed to config.over which is for
+site-wide changes).
+
+=item *
+
+Guidelines of how to construct minimal Perl installations have
+been added to INSTALL.
+
+=item *
+
+For Perl developers several new make targets for profiling
+have been added, see L<perlhack>.
+
=back
=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
@@ -1842,6 +1918,10 @@ Perl's malloc has problems with large address spaces and also the
speed of vendors' malloc is generally better in large address space
machines (Perl's malloc is mostly tuned for space).
+=item *
+
+PERL_OBJECT has been completely removed.
+
=back
=head1 Security Vulnerability Closed