[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_11 to perl5.003_12]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/delete.t

Subject: Autovivify scalars
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod pod/perlnews.pod

Subject: perltoot.pod
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 32e22efaa9ec59b73a208b6c532a0b435e2c6462)

Subject: Perlguts, version 25
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: pod/perlguts.pod

    private-msgid: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>

Subject: pod patches for English errors
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
Files: pod/*.pod
Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 0135f10892ed8a21c4dbd1fca21fbcc365df99dd)

Subject: Misc doc updates
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/*

    Subject: Re: perldelta.pod 
    
    Here are some diffs to the _11 pods.  I forgot to add perldelta to
    perl.pod though.
    
    And *PLEASE* fix the Artistic License so it no longer has the bogus
    "whomever" misdeclined in the nominative case:
    
        under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated
        them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
    
    It should obviously be "whoever".
    
    p5p-msgid: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c

Subject: Fix nested closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix core dump on auto-vivification
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c

Subject: Fix paren matching during backtracking
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: regexec.c

Subject: Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c

Subject: Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Fix local($pack::{foo})
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c

Subject: Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perl.c

Subject: Re: Bug in formline 
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_ctl.c
Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b386bda18108ba86d0b76ebe2d8745eafa80f39e)

Subject: Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h

Subject: Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

 PORTABILITY

Subject: Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm

Subject: Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH

Subject: Look for gettimeofday() in Configure
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c

    Subject: perl5.003_11, Should base use of gettimeofday on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY, not I_SYS_TIME
    
    I've been installing perl5.003_11 on a SCO system that has the TCP/IP runtime
    installed but not the TCP/IP development system.
    
    Unfortunately the <sys/time.h> include file is included in the TCP/IP runtime
    while libsocket.a is in the development system.
    
    This means that pp.c decides to use "gettimeofday" because <sys/time.h> is
    present but I can't link the perl that gets compiled.
    
    So, here's a patch to base the use of "gettimeofday" on "HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY"
    instead of "I_SYS_TIME".  I also took the liberty of removing the special
    case for plan9 (I assume plan9 has <sys/time.h> but no gettimeofday.  Am I
    right?).
    
    p5p-msgid: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>

Subject: Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL

Subject: LynxOS support
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
From: Greg Seibert <seibert@Lynx.COM>
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 6693373533b15e559fd8f0f1877e5e6ec15483cc)

Subject: Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 10e40321ee752c58e3407b204c74c8049894cb51)

Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_11
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*

    private-msgid: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

 TESTING

Subject: recurse recurse recurse ...
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t

    private-msgid: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>

 UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: Add CPAN and Net::FTP
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm pod/perlmod.pod

Subject: Add File::Compare
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit ec971c5c328aca84fb827f69f2cc1dc3be81f830)

Subject: Add Tie::RefHash
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 9a079709134ebbf4c935cc8752fdb564e5c82b94)

Subject: Put "splain" in utils.
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL

Subject: Some h2ph fixes
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: utils/h2ph.PL

    Here is a message regarding changes to h2ph that should probably be folded
    into the 5.004 release.
    
    p5p-msgid: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index c69a03eb53..083b567e19 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Contained in the file specified by the first filename on the command line.
 
 =item 3.
 
-Passed in implicitly via standard input.  This only works if there are
+Passed in implicitly via standard input.  This works only if there are
 no filename arguments--to pass arguments to a STDIN script you
 must explicitly specify a "-" for the script name.
 
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ scans for the first line starting with #! and containing the word
 embedded in a larger message.  (In this case you would indicate the end
 of the script using the __END__ token.)
 
-As of Perl 5, the #! line is always examined for switches as the line is
-being parsed.  Thus, if you're on a machine that only allows one argument
-with the #! line, or worse, doesn't even recognize the #! line, you still
-can get consistent switch behavior regardless of how Perl was invoked,
-even if B<-x> was used to find the beginning of the script.
+The #! line is always examined for switches as the line is being
+parsed.  Thus, if you're on a machine that allows only one argument
+with the #! line, or worse, doesn't even recognize the #! line, you
+still can get consistent switch behavior regardless of how Perl was
+invoked, even if B<-x> was used to find the beginning of the script.
 
 Because many operating systems silently chop off kernel interpretation of
 the #! line after 32 characters, some switches may be passed in on the
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ The sequences "-*" and "- " are specifically ignored so that you could,
 if you were so inclined, say
 
     #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- -p
-    eval 'exec perl $0 -S ${1+"$@"}'
-	if 0;
+    eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl $0 -S ${1+"$@"}'
+        if $running_under_some_shell;
 
 to let Perl see the B<-p> switch.
 
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ can say this:
     find . -name '*.bak' -print0 | perl -n0e unlink
 
 The special value 00 will cause Perl to slurp files in paragraph mode.
-The value 0777 will cause Perl to slurp files whole since there is no
+The value 0777 will cause Perl to slurp files whole because there is no
 legal character with that value.
 
 =item B<-a>
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ An alternate delimiter may be specified using B<-F>.
 
 causes Perl to check the syntax of the script and then exit without
 executing it.  Actually, it I<will> execute C<BEGIN>, C<END>, and C<use> blocks,
-since these are considered as occurring outside the execution of 
+because these are considered as occurring outside the execution of 
 your program.
 
 =item B<-d>
@@ -151,10 +151,10 @@ Devel::DProf profiler.  See L<perldebug>.
 =item B<-D>I<list>
 
 sets debugging flags.  To watch how it executes your script, use
-B<-D14>.  (This only works if debugging is compiled into your
+B<-D14>.  (This works only if debugging is compiled into your
 Perl.)  Another nice value is B<-D1024>, which lists your compiled
 syntax tree.  And B<-D512> displays compiled regular expressions. As an
-alternative specify a list of letters instead of numbers (e.g. B<-D14> is
+alternative specify a list of letters instead of numbers (e.g., B<-D14> is
 equivalent to B<-Dtls>):
 
         1  p  Tokenizing and Parsing
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Make sure to use semicolons where you would in a normal program.
 =item B<-F>I<pattern>
 
 specifies the pattern to split on if B<-a> is also in effect.  The
-pattern may be surrounded by C<//>, C<""> or C<''>, otherwise it will be
+pattern may be surrounded by C<//>, C<"">, or C<''>, otherwise it will be
 put in single quotes.
 
 =item B<-h>
@@ -330,9 +330,9 @@ the implicit loop, just as in awk.
 =item B<-P>
 
 causes your script to be run through the C preprocessor before
-compilation by Perl.  (Since both comments and cpp directives begin
+compilation by Perl.  (Because both comments and cpp directives begin
 with the # character, you should avoid starting comments with any words
-recognized by the C preprocessor such as "if", "else" or "define".)
+recognized by the C preprocessor such as "if", "else", or "define".)
 
 =item B<-s>
 
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ this is used to emulate #! startup on machines that don't support #!,
 in the following manner:
 
     #!/usr/bin/perl
-    eval "exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 $*"
+    eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
 	    if $running_under_some_shell;
 
 The system ignores the first line and feeds the script to /bin/sh,
@@ -365,15 +365,15 @@ script if necessary.  After Perl locates the script, it parses the
 lines and ignores them because the variable $running_under_some_shell
 is never true.  A better construct than C<$*> would be C<${1+"$@"}>, which
 handles embedded spaces and such in the filenames, but doesn't work if
-the script is being interpreted by csh.  In order to start up sh rather
+the script is being interpreted by csh.  To start up sh rather
 than csh, some systems may have to replace the #! line with a line
 containing just a colon, which will be politely ignored by Perl.  Other
 systems can't control that, and need a totally devious construct that
-will work under any of csh, sh or Perl, such as the following:
+will work under any of csh, sh, or Perl, such as the following:
 
 	eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
 	& eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 $argv:q'
-		if 0;
+		if $running_under_some_shell;
 
 =item B<-T>
 
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ Prints to STDOUT the value of the named configuration variable.
 prints warnings about variable names that are mentioned only once, and
 scalar variables that are used before being set.  Also warns about
 redefined subroutines, and references to undefined filehandles or
-filehandles opened readonly that you are attempting to write on.  Also
+filehandles opened read-only that you are attempting to write on.  Also
 warns you if you use values as a number that doesn't look like numbers, using
 an array as though it were a scalar, if
 your subroutines recurse more than 100 deep, and innumerable other things.
@@ -432,8 +432,8 @@ garbage will be discarded until the first line that starts with #! and
 contains the string "perl".  Any meaningful switches on that line will
 be applied (but only one group of switches, as with normal #!
 processing).  If a directory name is specified, Perl will switch to
-that directory before running the script.  The B<-x> switch only
-controls the the disposal of leading garbage.  The script must be
+that directory before running the script.  The B<-x> switch controls
+only the disposal of leading garbage.  The script must be
 terminated with C<__END__> if there is trailing garbage to be ignored (the
 script can process any or all of the trailing garbage via the DATA
 filehandle if desired).