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CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Make method cache invisible to user code
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: dump.c gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c perl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c
Subject: Never parse "{m,s,y,tr,q{,q,w,x}}:{,:}" as package or label
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Subject: Fix $^X under HP-UX
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
Subject: New hints/hpux.sh
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:09:32 -0800
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: hints/hpux.sh
private-msgid: <199612312309.AA283393772@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Perlguts, version 28
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:10:46 -0800
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
private-msgid: <199701032110.AA102535846@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Subject: Miscellaneous pod patches
From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod
Subject: expanded flock() docs
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <4481.852337871@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 1fd81fbbe87d964ad1f7dbdce41e36f3781dcf82)
Subject: Use Text::Wrap in buildtoc; run buildtoc
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Files: pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod
Subject: Remove obsolete perlovl.pod
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Fix segv when calling named closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c
Subject: Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t
Subject: Arrange for all "_<file" entries to be in %main::
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: gv.c lib/perl5db.pl
Subject: Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 15:42:05 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: cv.h pp_hot.c
Msg-ID: <199701012042.PAA25994@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit a3d90dd510fe5a67ed9b80e603493d285c30aa97)
Subject: Reword 'may be "0"' warning per Larry; fix its line number
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
Subject: 5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
Files: perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t
Msg-ID: <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 316c7b3d7b47e3143f94c7f8621e854c519d1e87)
Subject: Fix lost value from READLINE after TIEHANDLE
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c sv.h
TESTS
Subject: Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH t/TEST t/comp/use.t t/lib/locale.t t/op/overload.t t/op/use.t t/pragma/locale.t t/pragma/overload.t t/pragma/strict-refs t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warn-global t/pragma/warning.t
Subject: New tests: comp/colon.t and op/assignwarn.t
From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
Files: MANIFEST t/comp/colon.t t/op/assignwarn.t
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[editor's note: from history.perl.org. The sparc executables
originally included in the distribution are not in this commit.]
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So far, 4.0 is still a beta test version. For the last production
version, look in pub/perl.3.0/kits@44.
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See patch #19.
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A few of the new features: (18 Oct)
* Perl can now handle binary data correctly and has functions to pack and unpack binary structures into arrays or lists. You can now do arbitrary ioctl functions.
* You can now pass things to subroutines by reference.
* Debugger enhancements.
* An array or associative array may now appear in a local() list.
* Array values may now be interpolated into strings.
* Subroutine names are now distinguished by prefixing with &. You can call subroutines without using do, and without passing any argument list at all.
* You can use the new -u switch to cause perl to dump core so that you can run undump and produce a binary executable image. Alternately you can use the "dump" operator after initializing any variables and such.
* You can now chop lists.
* Perl now uses /bin/csh to do filename globbing, if available. This means that filenames with spaces or other strangenesses work right.
* New functions: mkdir and rmdir, getppid, getpgrp and setpgrp, getpriority and setpriority, chroot, ioctl and fcntl, flock, readlink, lstat, rindex, pack and unpack, read, warn, dbmopen and dbmclose, dump, reverse, defined, undef.
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Some of the enhancements from Perl1 included:
* New regexp routines derived from Henry Spencer's.
o Support for /(foo|bar)/.
o Support for /(foo)*/ and /(foo)+/.
o \s for whitespace, \S for non-, \d for digit, \D nondigit
* Local variables in blocks, subroutines and evals.
* Recursive subroutine calls are now supported.
* Array values may now be interpolated into lists: unlink 'foo', 'bar', @trashcan, 'tmp';
* File globbing.
* Use of <> in array contexts returns the whole file or glob list.
* New iterator for normal arrays, foreach, that allows both read and write.
* Ability to open pipe to a forked off script for secure pipes in setuid scripts.
* File inclusion via do 'foo.pl';
* More file tests, including -t to see if, for instance, stdin is a terminal. File tests now behave in a more correct manner. You can do file tests on filehandles as well as filenames. The special filetests -T and -B test a file to see if it's text or binary.
* An eof can now be used on each file of the <> input for such purposes as resetting the line numbers or appending to each file of an inplace edit.
* Assignments can now function as lvalues, so you can say things like ($HOST = $host) =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; ($obj = $src) =~ s/\.c$/.o/;
* You can now do certain file operations with a variable which holds the name of a filehandle, e.g. open(++$incl,$includefilename); $foo = <$incl>;
* Warnings are now available (with -w) on use of uninitialized variables and on identifiers that are mentioned only once, and on reference to various undefined things.
* There is now a wait operator.
* There is now a sort operator.
* The manual is now not lying when it says that perl is generally faster than sed. I hope.
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