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author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1997-03-26 07:04:34 +1200 |
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committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-03-26 07:04:34 +1200 |
commit | 54310121b442974721115f93666234a200f5c7e4 (patch) | |
tree | 99b5953030ddf062d77206ac0cf8ac967e7cbd93 /pod/perlfaq5.pod | |
parent | d03407ef6d8e534a414e9ce92c6c5c8dab664a40 (diff) | |
download | perl-54310121b442974721115f93666234a200f5c7e4.tar.gz |
[inseperable changes from patch from perl-5.003_95 to perl-5.003_86]
[editor's note: this commit was prepared manually so may differ in
minor ways to other inseperable changes commits]
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod
Title: "Implement void context, in which C<wantarray> is undef"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c
pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
pp_sys.c proto.h
Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod
pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t
Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Make C<scalar(reverse)> mean C<scalar(reverse $_)>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C<my $x = $x> in sub"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "safefree() mismatch"
From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500
Files: util.c
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id 9b9b466fb02dc96c81439bafbb3b2da55238cfd2)
Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)"
From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak
win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl
win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL
Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V"
From: Gisle Aas
Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200
Files: perl.c
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id b6c639e4b1912ad03b9b10ba9518d96bd0a6cfaf)
Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t
Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C<my $x; ++$x->{KEY}>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST)
Files: pp.c
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id d7d933a26349f945f93b2f0dbf85b773d8ca3219)
Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem "
From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500
Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id f289f7d2518e7a8a82114282e774adf50fa6ce85)
Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()"
From: Tim Bunce
Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c
Title: "Re: strict @F"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET)
Files: toke.c
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id dfd44a5c8c8dd4c001c595debfe73d011a96d844)
Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'"
From: lvirden@cas.org
Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST)
Files: toke.c
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id 9b56c8f8085a9e773ad87c6b3c1d0b5e39dbc348)
Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.h pp_sys.c
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "New module constant.pm"
From: Tom Phoenix
Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t
Title: "Remove chat2"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl
Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm
lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm
lib/CGI/Switch.pm
UTILITIES
Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL
Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml"
From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT
Files: installhtml
Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: utils/perlbug.PL
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again"
From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET)
Files: pod/perldelta.pod
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id 4176c059b9ba6b022e99c44270434a5c3e415b73)
Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs"
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331122546.14185C-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
Files: pod/perlsub.pod
Title: "Improve documentation of C<return>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod
Title: "perlfunc.pod patch"
From: Gisle Aas
Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id 35a731fcbcd7860eb497d6598f3f77b8746319c4)
Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per <gnat@frii.com>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod
pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod
pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat
Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t
Title: "Update docs on $]"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlvar.pod
Title: "perlvar.pod patch"
From: Gisle Aas
Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100
Files: pod/perlvar.pod
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id 0aa182cb0caa3829032904b9754807b1b7418509)
Title: "Fix example of C<or> vs. C<||>"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch"
From: Larry W. Virden
Files: pod/*.pod
Title: "Pod updates"
From: "Cary D. Renzema" <caryr@mxim.com>
Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST)
Files: pod/*.pod
(applied based on p5p patch as commit id 5695b28edc67a3f45e8a0f25755d07afef3660ac)
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfaq5.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfaq5.pod | 28 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod index 9c5e842793..47c6dead22 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ the changes you want, then copy that over the original. rename($new, $old) or die "can't rename $new to $old: $!"; Perl can do this sort of thing for you automatically with the C<-i> -command-line switch or the closely-related C<$^I> variable (see +command line switch or the closely-related C<$^I> variable (see L<perlrun> for more details). Note that C<-i> may require a suffix on some non-Unix systems; see the platform-specific documentation that came with your port. @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ the last line of a file without making a copy or reading the whole file into memory: open (FH, "+< $file"); - while ( <FH> ) { $addr = tell(FH) unless eof(FH) } + while ( <FH> ) { $addr = tell(FH) unless eof(FH) } truncate(FH, $addr); Error checking is left as an exercise for the reader. @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ one of its more specific derived classes. =head2 How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()? -There's no built-in way to do this, but L<perlform> has a couple of +There's no builtin way to do this, but L<perlform> has a couple of techniques to make it possible for the intrepid hacker. =head2 How can I write() into a string? @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ permissions, timestamps, inode info, etc. =head2 How can I lock a file? -Perl's built-in flock() function (see L<perlfunc> for details) will call +Perl's builtin flock() function (see L<perlfunc> for details) will call flock(2) if that exists, fcntl(2) if it doesn't (on perl version 5.004 and later), and lockf(3) if neither of the two previous system calls exists. On some systems, it may even use a different form of native locking. @@ -409,10 +409,10 @@ over NFS, so this won't work (at least, not every time) over the net. Various schemes involving involving link() have been suggested, but these tend to involve busy-wait, which is also subdesirable. -=head2 I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number +=head2 I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this? -Didn't anyone ever tell you web-page hit counters were useless? +Didn't anyone ever tell you web page hit counters were useless? Anyway, this is what to do: @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ Anyway, this is what to do: # DO NOT UNLOCK THIS UNTIL YOU CLOSE close FH or die "can't close numfile: $!"; -Here's a much better web-page hit counter: +Here's a much better web page hit counter: $hits = int( (time() - 850_000_000) / rand(1_000) ); @@ -455,14 +455,14 @@ like this: Locking and error checking are left as an exercise for the reader. Don't forget them, or you'll be quite sorry. -Don't forget to set binmode() under DOS-like platforms when operating +Don't forget to set binmode() under MS-DOS-like platforms when operating on files that have anything other than straight text in them. See the docs on open() and on binmode() for more details. =head2 How do I get a file's timestamp in perl? If you want to retrieve the time at which the file was last read, -written, or had its meta-data (owner, etc) changed, you use the B<-M>, +written, or had its metadata (owner, etc) changed, you use the B<-M>, B<-A>, or B<-C> filetest operations as documented in L<perlfunc>. These retrieve the age of the file (measured against the start-time of your program) in days as a floating point number. To retrieve the "raw" @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ The Term::ReadKey module from CPAN may be easier to use: printf "\nYou said %s, char number %03d\n", $key, ord $key; -For DOS systems, Dan Carson <dbc@tc.fluke.COM> reports the following: +For MS-DOS systems, Dan Carson <dbc@tc.fluke.COM> reports the following: To put the PC in "raw" mode, use ioctl with some magic numbers gleaned from msdos.c (Perl source file) and Ralf Brown's interrupt list (comes @@ -737,17 +737,17 @@ to, you may be able to do this: $rc = syscall(&SYS_close, $fd + 0); # must force numeric die "can't sysclose $fd: $!" unless $rc == -1; -=head2 Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't `C:\temp\foo.exe` work? +=head2 Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in MS-DOS paths? What doesn't `C:\temp\foo.exe` work? Whoops! You just put a tab and a formfeed into that filename! Remember that within double quoted strings ("like\this"), the backslash is an escape character. The full list of these is in L<perlop/Quote and Quote-like Operators>. Unsurprisingly, you don't have a file called "c:(tab)emp(formfeed)oo" or -"c:(tab)emp(formfeed)oo.exe" on your DOS filesystem. +"c:(tab)emp(formfeed)oo.exe" on your MS-DOS filesystem. Either single-quote your strings, or (preferably) use forward slashes. -Since all DOS and Windows versions since something like MS-DOS 2.0 or so +Since all MS-DOS and Windows versions since something like MS-DOS 2.0 or so have treated C</> and C<\> the same in a path, you might as well use the one that doesn't clash with Perl -- or the POSIX shell, ANSI C and C++, awk, Tcl, Java, or Python, just to mention a few. @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ awk, Tcl, Java, or Python, just to mention a few. =head2 Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files? Because even on non-Unix ports, Perl's glob function follows standard -Unix globbing semantics. You'll need C<glob("*")> to get all (non-hidden) +Unix globbing semantics. You'll need C<glob("*")> to get all (nonhidden) files. =head2 Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl? |