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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-12-28 02:24:44 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-12-28 02:24:44 +0000 |
commit | 0536e0eb9430aabbd7108b476aed1956f9be68df (patch) | |
tree | a4bc09b8cade81d816e436455a973bd0bc766089 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
parent | bd0dd1d83c04650dba1d85f284d68152ddb80c5c (diff) | |
download | perl-0536e0eb9430aabbd7108b476aed1956f9be68df.tar.gz |
pod edits from Paul Marquess and Mark-Jason Dominus
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4711
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 3a48ef4672..8d4fef80a8 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ responsibility to ensure that warnings are enabled judiciously. =item STOP is a new keyword In addition to C<BEGIN>, C<INIT>, C<END>, C<DESTROY> and C<AUTOLOAD>, -subroutines named C<STOP> are now special. They are queued up for -execution at the end of compilation, and cannot be called directly. +subroutines named C<STOP> are now special. These are queued up during +compilation and behave similar to END blocks, except they are called at +the end of compilation rather than at the end of execution. They cannot +be called directly. =item Treatment of list slices of undef has changed @@ -691,13 +693,6 @@ BEGIN blocks are executed under such conditions, this variable enables perl code to determine whether actions that make sense only during normal running are warranted. See L<perlvar>. -=head2 STOP blocks - -Arbitrary code can be queued for execution when Perl has finished -parsing the program (i.e. when the compile phase ends) using STOP -blocks. These behave similar to END blocks, except for being -called at the end of compilation rather than at the end of execution. - =head2 Optional Y2K warnings If Perl is built with the cpp macro C<PERL_Y2KWARN> defined, @@ -1134,7 +1129,8 @@ to Perl's debugging API. =item DB_File -[TODO - Paul Marquess <paul.marquess@bt.com>] +DB_File can now be built with Berkeley DB versions 1, 2 or 3. +See C<ext/DB_File/Changes>. =item Devel::DProf |