5.002 beta 1

If you're adventurous, have a look at

    ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.002beta1.tar.gz

Many thanks to Andy for doing the integration.

Obviously, if you consult the bugs database, you'll note there are
still plenty of buglets that need fixing, and several enhancements that
I've intended to put in still haven't made it in (Hi, Tim and Ilya).
But I think it'll be pretty stable.  And you can start to fiddle around
with prototypes (which are, of course, still totally undocumented).

Packrats, don't worry too much about readvertising this widely.
Nowadays we're on a T1 here, so our bandwidth is okay.

Have the appropriate amount of jollity.

Larry

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod
index fa68a753c2..cfe964270c 100644
--- a/pod/perltrap.pod
+++ b/pod/perltrap.pod
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ in Perl 5 is the backslash, which creates a reference.
 
 =item *
 
-C<ARGV> must be capitalized.
+C<ARGV> must be capitalized.  C<$ARGV[0]> is C's C<argv[1]>, and C<argv[0]>
+ends up in C<$0>.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -381,6 +382,28 @@ Because if that were to work, then this couldn't:
 
 =item *
 
+The precedence of assignment operators is now the same as the precedence
+of assignment.  Perl 4 mistakenly gave them the precedence of the associated
+operator.  So you now must parenthesize them in expressions like
+
+    /foo/ ? ($a += 2) : ($a -= 2);
+
+Otherwise
+
+    /foo/ ? $a += 2 : $a -= 2;
+
+would be erroneously parsed as
+
+    (/foo/ ? $a += 2 : $a) -= 2;
+
+On the other hand,
+
+    $a += /foo/ ? 1 : 2;
+
+now works as a C programmer would expect.
+
+=item *
+
 C<open FOO || die> is now incorrect.  You need parens around the filehandle.
 While temporarily supported, using such a construct will 
 generate a non-fatal (but non-suppressible) warning.