[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_93 to perl-5.003_94]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: Configure

Subject: Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure

Subject: patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT
From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
Files: installman installperl

    I got the new installhtml from CPAN
    (TOMC/scripts/pod2html-v2.0beta.shar.gz)
    
    I had problems getting the system call to splitpod at line 376 to work.
    
    1. splitroot was not being found
    2. splitroot was not finding its library
    3. I changed htmlroot to podroot at line 175 to match the documentation.
    
    p5p-msgid: 3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk
    private-msgid: 21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk

Subject: 3_93 doesn't install pods
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500
From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Files: installperl
Msg-ID: 199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 43506a616735d616e03d277d64fbae1e864024bf)

Subject: When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: installperl

Subject: Make hint files' warnings more visible
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET)
From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh

    private-msgid: 199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c

Subject: New special literal: __PACKAGE__
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c

Subject: Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t

Subject: allow C<substr 'hello', -10>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800
From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
Files: pp.c
Msg-ID: 97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 77f720bf92f3d0100352416caeedd57936807ff2)

Subject: Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c

Subject: Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c sv.c toke.c

Subject: Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod

Subject: Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Don't say 'static var = 1'
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Files: malloc.c

    private-msgid: 199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi

Subject: HP/UX hint comments
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: hints/hpux.sh

    private-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette.

Subject: VMS update
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms
Msg-ID: 1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 2b5725676da60b49978f38b85bb7f8ee20b4cb55)

Subject: vmsish.t and related patches
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c

    private-msgid: 01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

Subject: Win32 update (four patches)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c win32/*

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: perlfaq.pod
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall

    private-msgid: 199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com

Subject: *.pod changes based on the FAQ
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST)
From: Nat Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod
Msg-ID: 199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3c10ad8e31f7d77e71c048b1746912f41cb540f0)

Subject: Document that $. is not reset on implicit open
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Re: Embedding success with _93 
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Msg-ID: 199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 63a6ff3a1dc8d86edb4d8a7ec1548205e32a7114)

Subject: Patch to document illegal characters
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod

    private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com

Subject: Document trap with //o and closures
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: pod/perltrap.pod
Msg-ID: 01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit a54cb1465fdb400848f23705a6f130bb5c34ab70)

Subject: Illegal character in input
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod

    private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com

Subject: Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perlop.pod

    private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com

Subject: XSUB's doc fix
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
Msg-ID: 28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5f43237038ea7a4151d3bf65aeeecd56ceb78a6a)

Subject: Document return from do FILE
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit ba8d5fb439878113de8abc9b52d2af237d30fb3c)

Subject: Document $^M in perlvar
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT
From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
Files: pod/perlvar.pod

    private-msgid: 6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk

Subject: typos in pods of 5.003_93
Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod
Msg-ID: wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 76a9873e006cf8f48f57062b2a0dd40b5ed45a95)

Subject: Re: Updates to pod punctuations
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500
From: Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
Files: pod/*.pod

    private-msgid: 9703141700.AA22911@cas.org

Subject: clarify example in perlfunc
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod

    private-msgid: 199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi

Subject: Regularize headings in DB_File documentation
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: New module: autouse.pm
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm
Msg-ID: 199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 6757905eccb6dd0440ef65e8128a277a20f7d943)

Subject: Refresh DB_File to 1.12
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
Msg-ID: 9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b3deed9189f963e9994815307931f9084f60d1d9)

Subject: In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/File/Path.pm

Subject: Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/Getopt/Long.pm

Subject: Problems with SKIP in makemaker
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Msg-ID: 199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 970322a2e8024294ada6e8d1a027cb98f1f48ee3)

Subject: In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/Exporter.pm

Subject: fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Files: lib/Exporter.pm
Msg-ID: 2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 2768ea1aeef34f42d096f198fbe629c8374ca429)

Subject: Don't try to substr() refs in Carp
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/Carp.pm

Subject: Re: NUL in die and other messages
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Msg-ID: E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 52a267c574cb66c4bc35601dcf148a1d7a3bc557)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c

Subject: For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h

Subject: Fix C<print> on tied default handle
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c

Subject: Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c

Subject: printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c x2p/util.c
Msg-ID: 26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit e125f273e351a19a92b69d6244af55abbbf0a26d)

Subject: Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
Files: perl.c
Msg-ID: 199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 71aeea1753924e6e19c2461e241e3f7d8a570e90)

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 24b16128dd..e0a23b0162 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ desperation):
     (A) An alien error message (not generated by Perl).
 
 Optional warnings are enabled by using the B<-w> switch.  Warnings may
-be captured by setting C<$SIG{__WARN__}> to a reference to a routine that will be
-called on each warning instead of printing it.  See L<perlvar>.
+be captured by setting C<$SIG{__WARN__}> to a reference to a routine that
+will be called on each warning instead of printing it.  See L<perlvar>.
 Trappable errors may be trapped using the eval operator.  See
 L<perlfunc/eval>.
 
@@ -339,6 +339,14 @@ Perl yourself.
 (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a BEGIN subroutine.
 Compilation stops immediately and the interpreter is exited.
 
+=item BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted
+
+(F) Perl found a C<BEGIN {}> subroutine (or a C<use> directive, which
+implies a C<BEGIN {}>) after one or more compilation errors had
+already occurred.  Since the intended environment for the C<BEGIN {}>
+could not be guaranteed (due to the errors), and since subsequent code
+likely depends on its correct operation, Perl just gave up.
+
 =item bind() on closed fd
 
 (W) You tried to do a bind on a closed socket.  Did you forget to check
@@ -646,7 +654,7 @@ buffer.
 
 =item Can't open %s: %s
 
-(S) An inplace edit couldn't open the original file for the indicated reason.
+(S) An in-place edit couldn't open the original file for the indicated reason.
 Usually this is because you don't have read permission for the file.
 
 =item Can't open bidirectional pipe
@@ -1066,8 +1074,8 @@ the line, and you really meant a "less than".
 
 =item Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name
 
-(F) You've said "use strict vars", which indicates that all variables must
-either be lexically scoped (using "my"), or explicitly qualified to
+(F) You've said "use strict vars", which indicates that all variables
+must either be lexically scoped (using "my"), or explicitly qualified to
 say which package the global variable is in (using "::").
 
 =item goto must have label
@@ -1099,8 +1107,20 @@ or it may indicate that a logical name table has been corrupted.
 
 (F) A carriage return character was found in the input.  This is an
 error, and not a warning, because carriage return characters can break
-here documents (e.g. C<print E<lt>E<lt>EOF;>).  Note that Perl always
-opens scripts in text mode, so this error should only occur in C<eval>.
+here documents (e.g., C<print E<lt>E<lt>EOF;>).
+  
+Under UNIX, this error is usually caused by executing Perl code --
+either the main program, a module, or an eval'd string -- that was
+transferred over a network connection from a non-UNIX system without
+properly converting the text file format.
+
+Under systems that use something other than '\n' to delimit lines of
+text, this error can also be caused by reading Perl code from a file
+handle that is in binary mode (as set by the C<binmode> operator).
+
+In either case, the Perl code in question will probably need to be
+converted with something like C<s/\x0D\x0A?/\n/g> before it can be
+executed.
 
 =item Illegal division by zero
 
@@ -1301,10 +1321,10 @@ like C<$foo[1][2][3]>, as in C.
 
 =item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo
 
-(W) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names.  If you
-had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention it
-again somehow to suppress the message (the C<use vars> pragma is
-provided for just this purpose).
+(W) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names.
+If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention
+it again somehow to suppress the message.  The C<use vars> pragma is
+provided for just this purpose.
 
 =item Negative length
 
@@ -1796,7 +1816,7 @@ old-fashioned way, with quotes and commas:
 =item Possible attempt to separate words with commas
 
 (W) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; therefore commas
-aren't needed to separate the items. (You may have used different
+aren't needed to separate the items.  (You may have used different
 delimiters than the parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently
 used.)
 
@@ -1826,9 +1846,10 @@ is now misinterpreted as
 
     open(FOO || die);
 
-because of the strict regularization of Perl 5's grammar into unary and
-list operators.  (The old open was a little of both.) You must put
-parentheses around the filehandle, or use the new "or" operator instead of "||".
+because of the strict regularization of Perl 5's grammar into unary
+and list operators.  (The old open was a little of both.)  You must
+put parentheses around the filehandle, or use the new "or" operator
+instead of "||".
 
 =item print on closed filehandle %s
 
@@ -2104,7 +2125,7 @@ may break this.
 
 (P) The substitution was looping infinitely.  (Obviously, a
 substitution shouldn't iterate more times than there are characters of
-input, which is what happened.) See the discussion of substitution in
+input, which is what happened.)  See the discussion of substitution in
 L<perlop/"Quote and Quote-like Operators">.
 
 =item Substitution pattern not terminated
@@ -2490,13 +2511,13 @@ L<perlref> for more on this.
 (W) A copy of the object returned from C<tie> (or C<tied>) was still
 valid when C<untie> was called.
 
-=item Value of %s construct can be "0"; test with defined()
+=item Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined()
 
-(W) In a conditional expression, you used <HANDLE>, <*> (glob), or
-C<readdir> as a boolean value.  Each of these constructs can return a
-value of "0"; that would make the conditional expression false, which
-is probably not what you intended.  When using these constructs in
-conditional expressions, test their values with the C<defined> operator.
+(W) In a conditional expression, you used <HANDLE>, <*> (glob), C<each()>,
+or C<readdir()> as a boolean value.  Each of these constructs can return a
+value of "0"; that would make the conditional expression false, which is
+probably not what you intended.  When using these constructs in conditional
+expressions, test their values with the C<defined> operator.
 
 =item Variable "%s" is not imported%s