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author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-11-20 01:49:59 +0000 |
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committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-11-20 01:49:59 +0000 |
commit | 888aee597441568824c1835285c8012bab253529 (patch) | |
tree | bc30bd61d0081f82a7017ed032bf9b3fb25fe002 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
parent | f1808fd1210b0108554ea2a91877cc75afeee658 (diff) | |
download | perl-888aee597441568824c1835285c8012bab253529.tar.gz |
Pass 2 at perldelta: add some changes since 5.7.2.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13114
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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 |