Change 11257 by jhi@alpha on 2001/07/10 13:45:44
Mention package; deprecation and the Win32 problems.
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Index: perl/pod/perl572delta.pod
--- perl/pod/perl572delta.pod.~1~ Tue Jul 10 08:00:05 2001
+++ perl/pod/perl572delta.pod Tue Jul 10 08:00:05 2001
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
and will be removed in Perl 5.10.0, and the feature will be
implemented differently. Not only is the current interface rather
ugly, but the current implementation slows down normal array and hash
-use quite noticeably. The 'fields' pragma interface will remain
+use quite noticeably. The C<fields> pragma interface will remain
available.
The syntaxes C<@a->[...]> and C<@h->{...}> have now been deprecated.
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@
maintaining and the suidperl code is likely to be removed in a future
release.
+The C<package;> syntax (C<package> without an argument has been
+deprecated. Its semantics were never that clear and its
+implementation even less so. If you have used that feature to
+disallow all but fully qualified variables, C<use strict;> instead.
+
=head1 Core Enhancements
In general a lot of fixing has happened in the area of Perl's
@@ -718,6 +723,11 @@
[.op]misc...............................FAILED on test 49
Failed 6/401 tests, 92.77% okay.
+=head2 Win32
+
+In multi-CPU boxes there are some problems with the I/O buffering:
+some output may appear twice.
+
=head2 Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
use Tie::Hash;
End of Patch.
