[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)

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlmod.pod b/pod/perlmod.pod
index 194cd1125d..29f9059220 100644
--- a/pod/perlmod.pod
+++ b/pod/perlmod.pod
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ package's symbol table.  All other symbols are kept in package C<main>,
 including all of the punctuation variables like $_.  In addition, the
 identifiers STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, ARGVOUT, ENV, INC, and SIG are
 forced to be in package C<main>, even when used for other purposes than
-their built-in one.  Note also that, if you have a package called C<m>,
+their builtin one.  Note also that, if you have a package called C<m>,
 C<s>, or C<y>, then you can't use the qualified form of an identifier
 because it will be interpreted instead as a pattern match, a substitution,
 or a translation.
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ use the C<*name> typeglob notation.  In fact, the following have the same
 effect, though the first is more efficient because it does the symbol
 table lookups at compile time:
 
-    local(*main::foo) = *main::bar; local($main::{'foo'}) =
-    $main::{'bar'};
+    local(*main::foo) = *main::bar;
+    local($main::{'foo'}) = $main::{'bar'};
 
 You can use this to print out all the variables in a package, for
 instance.  Here is F<dumpvar.pl> from the Perl library:
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ the rest of the current file.  This will not work if you use C<require>
 instead of C<use>.  With require you can get into this problem:
 
     require Cwd;		# make Cwd:: accessible
-    $here = Cwd::getcwd();	
+    $here = Cwd::getcwd();
 
     use Cwd;			# import names from Cwd::
     $here = getcwd();
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ F<.pl> files will all eventually be converted into standard modules, and
 the F<.ph> files made by B<h2ph> will probably end up as extension modules
 made by B<h2xs>.  (Some F<.ph> values may already be available through the
 POSIX module.)  The B<pl2pm> file in the distribution may help in your
-conversion, but it's just a mechanical process and therefore far from 
+conversion, but it's just a mechanical process and therefore far from
 bulletproof.
 
 =head2 Pragmatic Modules
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ which lasts until the end of that BLOCK.
 
 Unlike the pragmas that effect the C<$^H> hints variable, the C<use
 vars> and C<use subs> declarations are not BLOCK-scoped.  They allow
-you to pre-declare a variables or subroutines within a particular
+you to predeclare a variables or subroutines within a particular
 I<file> rather than just a block.  Such declarations are effective
 for the entire file for which they were declared.  You cannot rescind
 them with C<no vars> or C<no subs>.
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ manipulate @INC at compile time
 
 =item locale
 
-use or ignore current locale for built-in operations (see L<perllocale>)
+use or ignore current locale for builtin operations (see L<perllocale>)
 
 =item ops
 
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ restrict unsafe constructs
 
 =item subs
 
-pre-declare sub names
+predeclare sub names
 
 =item vmsish
 
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ adopt certain VMS-specific behaviors
 
 =item vars
 
-pre-declare global variable names
+predeclare global variable names
 
 =back
 
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ determine libraries to use and how to use them
 
 =item ExtUtils::MM_OS2
 
-methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+methods to override Unix behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
 
 =item ExtUtils::MM_Unix
 
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
 
 =item ExtUtils::MM_VMS
 
-methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+methods to override Unix behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
 
 =item ExtUtils::MakeMaker
 
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ create or remove a series of directories
 
 =item File::stat
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin stat() functions
 
 =item FileCache
 
@@ -704,19 +704,19 @@ Hello, anybody home?
 
 =item Net::hostent
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin gethost*() functions
 
 =item Net::netent
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin getnet*() functions
 
 =item Net::protoent
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin getproto*() functions
 
 =item Net::servent
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin getserv*() functions
 
 =item Opcode
 
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ try every conceivable way to get hostname
 
 =item Sys::Syslog
 
-interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
+interface to the Unix syslog(3) calls
 
 =item Term::Cap
 
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as described by Knuth
 
 =item Text::Tabs
 
-expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)
+expand and unexpand tabs per the Unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)
 
 =item Text::Wrap
 
@@ -828,11 +828,11 @@ efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
 
 =item Time::gmtime
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin gmtime() function
 
 =item Time::localtime
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin localtime() function
 
 =item Time::tm
 
@@ -844,11 +844,11 @@ base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
 
 =item User::grent
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin getgr*() functions
 
 =item User::pwent
 
-by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions
+by-name interface to Perl's builtin getpw*() functions
 
 =back
 
@@ -862,7 +862,8 @@ your system man(1) command.  If that fails, try the I<perldoc> program.
 
 =head2 Extension Modules
 
-Extension modules are written in C (or a mix of Perl and C) and get
+Extension modules are written in C (or a mix of Perl and C) and may be
+statically linked or in general are
 dynamically loaded into Perl if and when you need them.  Supported
 extension modules include the Socket, Fcntl, and POSIX modules.
 
@@ -1213,7 +1214,7 @@ standards for naming modules and the interface to methods in
 those modules.
 
 To be portable each component of a module name should be limited to
-11 characters. If it might be used on DOS then try to ensure each is
+11 characters. If it might be used on MS-DOS then try to ensure each is
 unique in the first 8 characters. Nested modules make this easier.
 
 =item Have you got it right?
@@ -1279,8 +1280,8 @@ How you choose to license your work is a personal decision.
 The general mechanism is to assert your Copyright and then make
 a declaration of how others may copy/use/modify your work.
 
-Perl, for example, is supplied with two types of license: The GNU
-GPL and The Artistic License (see the files README, Copying, and
+Perl, for example, is supplied with two types of licence: The GNU
+GPL and The Artistic Licence (see the files README, Copying, and
 Artistic).  Larry has good reasons for NOT just using the GNU GPL.
 
 My personal recommendation, out of respect for Larry, Perl, and the