[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_91 to perl-5.003_92]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: OS/2 patches
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t
Msg-ID: 199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit eda4d5189d403b15f244b4696a710fb91d15053e)

Subject: VMS patches
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl

    private-msgid: 01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Add taint checks and srand to perldelta
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Msg-ID: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b28e0bc0aa3232e18d1bacb3efcbfb755ad100e0)

Subject: Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: Improve sample module header
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: 199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3e1e15658152387f41e00ded4796cede4e1e10d3)

Subject: Update list of CPAN sites
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Files: pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: 199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 9423903e60e6c92c1893f5f4cab2476f403f8a4b)

Subject: Enhance description of 'server error'
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod

    private-msgid: 199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi

Subject: Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/*.pod

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: Use IV instead of double for tms structure members
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Clarify '-T too late' error
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod

Subject: Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c

Subject: Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod

Subject: Clarify message re: @host in string
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c

Subject: Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix typo in test of HvFILL()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c

Subject: Eliminate format-string type warnings
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET)
From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c

    private-msgid: 199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no

Subject: Update copyright dates
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c

 TESTS

Subject: Smarter t/op/taint.t
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: t/op/taint.t

    private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com

Subject: Fix taint test for systems without csh
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: t/op/taint.t

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 3334b65b61..c21e28a913 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -838,6 +838,12 @@ the return value of your socket() call?  See L<perlfunc/connect>.
 inlining.  See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and
 workarounds.
 
+=item Constant subroutine %s undefined
+
+(S) You undefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible for
+inlining.  See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and
+workarounds.
+
 =item Copy method did not return a reference
 
 (F) The method which overloads "=" is buggy. See L<overload/Copy Constructor>.
@@ -1106,6 +1112,16 @@ don't take to this kindly.
 (W) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number.  Interpretation
 of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
 
+=item In string, @%s now must be written as \@%s
+
+(F) It used to be that Perl would try to guess whether you wanted an
+array interpolated or a literal @.  It did this when the string was first
+used at runtime.  Now strings are parsed at compile time, and ambiguous
+instances of @ must be disambiguated, either by prepending a backslash to
+indicate a literal, or by declaring (or using) the array within the
+program before the string (lexically).  (Someday it will simply assume
+that an unbackslashed @ interpolates an array.)
+
 =item Insecure dependency in %s
 
 (F) You tried to do something that the tainting mechanism didn't like.
@@ -1196,16 +1212,6 @@ L<perlfunc/last>.
 (W) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket.  Did you forget to check
 the return value of your socket() call?  See L<perlfunc/listen>.
 
-=item Literal @%s now requires backslash
-
-(F) It used to be that Perl would try to guess whether you wanted an
-array interpolated or a literal @.  It did this when the string was
-first used at runtime.  Now strings are parsed at compile time, and
-ambiguous instances of @ must be disambiguated, either by putting a
-backslash to indicate a literal, or by declaring (or using) the array
-within the program before the string (lexically).  (Someday it will simply
-assume that an unbackslashed @ interpolates an array.)
-
 =item Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing
 
 (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that
@@ -1976,12 +1982,22 @@ See L<perlre>.
 
 =item Server error
 
-Also known as "500 Server error".  This is a CGI error, not a Perl
-error.  You need to make sure your script is executable, is accessible
-by the user CGI is running the script under (which is probably not
-the user account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment
-variables (like PATH) from the user it isn't running under, and isn't
-in a location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less.
+Also known as "500 Server error".
+
+B<This is a CGI error, not a Perl error>.
+
+You need to make sure your script is executable, is accessible by the user
+CGI is running the script under (which is probably not the user account you
+tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables (like PATH)
+from the user it isn't running under, and isn't in a location where the CGI
+server can't find it, basically, more or less.  Please see the following
+for more information:
+
+	http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/idiots-guide.html
+	http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/perl-cgi-faq.html
+	ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq
+	http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
+	http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
 
 =item setegid() not implemented
 
@@ -2194,18 +2210,21 @@ you're not running on Unix.
 (F) There has to be at least one argument to syscall() to specify the
 system call to call, silly dilly.
 
-=item Too late for "B<-T>" option (try putting it first)
+=item Too late for "B<-T>" option
+
+(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the
+B<-T> option, but Perl was not invoked with B<-T> in its argument
+list.  This is an error because, by the time Perl discovers a B<-T> in
+a script, it's too late to properly taint everything from the
+environment.  So Perl gives up.
 
-(X) The #! line in a Perl script contains the B<-T> option, but Perl
-was not invoked with B<-T> in its argument list.  Due to the way Perl
-handles tainting, by the time Perl discovers a B<-T> in a script, it's
-too late to properly taint everything from the environment.  So Perl
-gives up.
+If the Perl script is being executed as a command using the #!
+mechanism (or its local equivalent), this error can usually be fixed
+by editing the #! line so that the B<-T> option is a part of Perl's
+first argument: e.g. change C<perl -n -T> to C<perl -T -n>.
 
-This error can usually be fixed by editing the #! line so that the
-B<-T> option is in the Perl program's first argument.  (Many operating
-systems that implement the #! feature only pick up one argument from
-it, so Perl has to get the rest on its own.)
+If the Perl script is being executed as C<perl scriptname>, then the
+B<-T> option must appear on the command line: C<perl -T scriptname>.
 
 =item Too many ('s
 
@@ -2470,7 +2489,7 @@ 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 exported
+=item Variable "%s" is not imported%s
 
 (F) While "use strict" in effect, you referred to a global variable
 that you apparently thought was imported from another module, because