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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-12-28 02:24:44 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-12-28 02:24:44 +0000
commit0536e0eb9430aabbd7108b476aed1956f9be68df (patch)
treea4bc09b8cade81d816e436455a973bd0bc766089 /pod/perldelta.pod
parentbd0dd1d83c04650dba1d85f284d68152ddb80c5c (diff)
downloadperl-0536e0eb9430aabbd7108b476aed1956f9be68df.tar.gz
pod edits from Paul Marquess and Mark-Jason Dominus
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4711
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
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+++ 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