[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_17 to perl5.003_18]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Inherited overloading
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t

    Chip Salzenberg writes:
    > 
    > Patch now, tarchive later:
    
    Below is the fixed overloading patch.
    
    Note that in between AMG_names got const on it (a good thing!), but as
    a corollary I needed to cast away const-ness to actually use it
    (since, say, newSVpv does not have const args).
    
    Enjoy,
    
    p5p-msgid: <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

Subject: Closures at file scope must be anonymous
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c

Subject: Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or <FH>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ..."
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
Msg-ID: <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit c885792efecf3f527b3b5099727cc16b03eee1dc)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h gv.c op.c

 TESTS

Subject: Expanded locale.t and misc.t
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t

Subject: Expanded my.t
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/my.t

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod
index 391c98b129..b8247a4208 100644
--- a/pod/perltrap.pod
+++ b/pod/perltrap.pod
@@ -654,7 +654,8 @@ Formatted output and significant digits
 
 This specific item has been deleted.  It demonstrated how the auto-increment
 operator would not catch when a number went over the signed int limit.  Fixed
-in 5.003_04.  But always be wary when using large integers.  If in doubt:
+in version 5.003_04.  But always be wary when using large integers.
+If in doubt:
 
    use Math::BigInt;
 
@@ -663,10 +664,10 @@ in 5.003_04.  But always be wary when using large integers.  If in doubt:
 Assignment of return values from numeric equality tests
 does not work in perl5 when the test evaluates to false (0).
 Logical tests now return an null, instead of 0
- 
+
     $p = ($test == 1);
     print $p,"\n";
-  
+
     # perl4 prints: 0
     # perl5 prints:
 
@@ -934,7 +935,7 @@ 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
@@ -1164,7 +1165,7 @@ within  the signal handler function, each time a signal was handled with
 perl4.  With perl5, the reset is now done correctly.  Any code relying 
 on the handler _not_ being reset will have to be reworked.
 
-5.002 and beyond uses sigaction() under SysV
+Since version 5.002, Perl uses sigaction() under SysV.
 
     sub gotit {
         print "Got @_... ";