tag name | perl-5.004_02 (7b916029c07196492308a723d959dff653be8cc6) |
tag date | 1997-08-07 00:00:00 +0000 |
tagged by | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> |
tagged object | commit 8490252049... |
download | perl-5.004_02.tar.gz |
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Perl 5.004_03
"When you work you are a flute through whose
heart the whispering of the hours turns to music."
-- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
Major memory growth bug fixed.
Object destruction is more timely and orderly.
Further major enhancements to Win32 support, including:
Win32 binary compatibility between Visual C++ and Borland C++.
The -S option is now more useful on dos/Win32 (see perlrun).
Implicit -p print now checks for write errors.
DB_File now sub-classable (and other fixes).
Memory usage stats available with perl's malloc (see perldelta).
'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated (see perldelta).
Internal integer to string conversions are faster.
Carp can be forced to give stack traces (see perldoc Carp).
Many other bug fixes and enhancements.
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