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author | jlam <jlam> | 2000-08-30 18:42:23 +0000 |
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committer | jlam <jlam> | 2000-08-30 18:42:23 +0000 |
commit | 9ab5385881ac8b142d1d5f3f9cec091ac26a1f3e (patch) | |
tree | 5c6fb00c6a106df8c9eab7e7342a03abb0c002be /distfiles | |
parent | e3eed647d29abe786792aa16810321e94fb79eba (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-9ab5385881ac8b142d1d5f3f9cec091ac26a1f3e.tar.gz |
Update perl to 5.6.0nb2 from perl5-current. Changes from version 5.00404
(from commit log of perl5-current/Makefile):
* Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
* Lexically scoped warning categories
* Unicode and UTF-8 support
* Support for interpolating named characters
* "our" declarations
* Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
* Improved Perl version numbering system
* New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
* File and directory handles can be autovivified
* open() with more than two arguments
* 64-bit support
* Large file support
* Long doubles
* "more bits"
* Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
* C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
* File globbing implemented internally
* POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
* Improved C<qw//> operator
* pack() format 'Z' supported
* pack() format modifier '!' supported
* pack() and unpack() support counted strings
* Comments in pack() templates
* Weak references
* Binary numbers supported
* Lvalue subroutines
* Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
* Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
* exists() is supported on subroutine names
* exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
* Pseudo-hashes work better
* Automatic flushing of output buffers
* Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
* Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
* eof() has the same old magic as <>
* binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
* C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
* system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
* Improved diagnostics
* Diagnostics follow STDERR
* syswrite() ease-of-use
* Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
* Bit operators support full native integer width
* Improved security features
* C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
* $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
* New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
* New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
* Optional Y2K warnings
* Modules
* Pragmata
* dprofpp
* find2perl
* h2xs
* perlcc
* perldoc
* The Perl Debugger
* Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
* Optimized assignments to lexical variables
* Faster subroutine calls
* -Dusethreads means something different
* New Configure flags
* Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
* Long Doubles
...
See 'perldoc perldelta' for a full list.
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