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@@ -9,6 +9,396 @@ releases.) ---------------- +Version 5.003_94 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h + sv.c + + Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c + + Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + Title: "Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t + + Title: "allow C<substr 'hello', -10>" + From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" + From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com> + Msg-ID: <w47mjakw5t.fsf@loiosh.kei.com> + Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "More MachTen hints" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970316133852.27997A-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:40:35 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "HP/UX hint comments" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "VMS update" + From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey) + Msg-ID: <1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t + utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "vmsish.t and related patches" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> and + Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness + t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t + t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t + t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t + t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t + t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c + win32/* + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C<print> on tied default handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c + + Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500 + Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c + x2p/util.c + + Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500 + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it" + From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty + Files: Configure + + Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}" + From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT + Files: installman installperl + + Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods" + From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us> + Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> + Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET) + Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh + hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh + hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh + hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh + hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module: autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Msg-ID: <pzlo7ut03b.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500 + Files: lib/Symbol.pm + + Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Msg-ID: <pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perlfaq.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> + Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST) + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321112326.1414A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:25:32 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Document that $. is not reset on implicit open" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Re: Embedding success with _93 " + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Update site list" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Patch to document illegal characters" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Document trap with //o and closures" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Re: Inline PI function" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310143125.22489V-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:33:20 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Illegal character in input" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "XSUB's doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document return from do FILE" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document $^M in perlvar" + From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93" + From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com> + Msg-ID: <wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com> + Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod + pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "clarify example in perlfunc" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + +---------------- Version 5.003_93 ---------------- |