Change 20011 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/07/05 13:44:30
perldelta tweaks.
Affected files ...
... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#20 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#20 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#19~19983~ Fri Jul 4 05:28:01 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Sat Jul 5 06:44:30 2003
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
=head2 Hash Randomisation
-Due to security reasons, the "random ordering" of hashes has been made
-even more random. Previously while the order of hash elements from
-keys(), values(), and each() was essentially random, it was still
-repeatable. Now, however, the order varies between different runs
-of Perl.
+Mainly due to security reasons, the "random ordering" of hashes
+has been made even more random. Previously while the order of hash
+elements from keys(), values(), and each() was essentially random,
+it was still repeatable. Now, however, the order varies between
+different runs of Perl.
B<Perl has never guaranteed any ordering of the hash keys>, and the
ordering has already changed several times during the lifetime of
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@
Pod::LaTeX
+PodParsers
+
Pod::Perldoc
Scalar::Util - New utilities: refaddr, isvstring, looks_like_number,
@@ -196,10 +198,15 @@
Term::ANSIcolor
+Test::Harness - now much more picky about extra or missing output
+from test scripts.
+
Test::More
Test::Simple
+Text::Balanced
+
Time::HiRes - Use of nanosleep(), if available, allows mixing
subsecond sleeps with alarms.
@@ -281,7 +288,8 @@
=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
-Setting $0 works again in Linux.
+Setting $0 works again in Linux (with certain limitations that
+Perl cannot do much about: see L<perlvar/$0>).
Setting $0 now works in HP-UX.
End of Patch.
