NAME perlartistic – the Perl Artistic License SYNOPSIS You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>" Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic" DESCRIPTION Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the…
NAME README.apollo – Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS DESCRIPTION The following tests are known to fail as of Perl 5.005_03: comp/decl……….FAILED at test 0 op/write………..FAILED at test 0 lib/filefind…….FAILED at test 2 lib/io_udp………FAILED at test 2 lib/findbin……..stat(/ressel/ABT/USER/vta/jk/proj.local/perl/perl5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_5/t/lib/): No such file or directory at ../lib/FindBin.pm line 162 stat(/ressel/ABT/USER/vta/jk/proj.local/perl/perl5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_5/t/lib/): No such file or directory at ../lib/FindBin.pm…
NAME perlapio – perl’s IO abstraction interface. SYNOPSIS #define PERLIO_NOT_STDIO 0 /* For co-existence with stdio only */ #include <perlio.h> /* Usually via #include <perl.h> */ PerlIO *PerlIO_stdin(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_stdout(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_stderr(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_open(const char *path, const char *mode); PerlIO *PerlIO_fdopen(int fd, const char *mode); PerlIO *PerlIO_reopen(const char *path, /* deprecated */ const char *mode,…
perlapi – autogenerated documentation for the perl public API Description This file contains the documentation of the perl public API generated by embed.pl, specifically a listing of functions, macros, flags, and variables that may be used by extension writers. At the end is a list of functions which have yet to be documented. The interfaces…
NAME perlandroid – Perl under Android SYNOPSIS The first portions of this documents contains instructions to cross-compile Perl for Android 2.0 and later, using the binaries provided by Google. The latter portion describes how to build perl native using one of the toolchains available on the Play Store. DESCRIPTION This document describes how to set…
NAME perlamiga – Perl under AmigaOS 4.1 NOTE This is a port of Perl 5.22.1, it is a fresh port and not in any way compatible with my previous ports of Perl 5.8 and 5.16.3. This means you will need to reinstall / rebuild any third party modules you have installed. newlib.library version 53.28 or…
NAME perlaix – Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of IBM‘s UNIX operating system AIX that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Compiling Perl 5 on AIX For information on compilers on older versions of AIX, see “Compiling Perl 5…
NAME perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler SYNOPSIS perl6[switches][–][programfile][arguments] DESCRIPTION With no arguments, enters a REPL. With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code. -c check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks) –doc extract documentation and print it as text -e program one…
NAME perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler SYNOPSIS perl6[switches][–][programfile][arguments] DESCRIPTION With no arguments, enters a REPL. With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code. -c check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks) –doc extract documentation and print it as text -e program one…
NAME perl595delta – what is new for perl v5.9.5 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.9.4 and the 5.9.5 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta, perl592delta, perl593delta and perl594delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.4. Incompatible Changes Tainting and printf When perl is run under taint mode, "printf()" and "sprintf()" will now reject any…
NAME perl594delta – what is new for perl v5.9.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.9.3 and the 5.9.4 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta, perl592delta and perl593delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.3. Incompatible Changes chdir FOO A bareword argument to chdir() is now recognized as a file handle. Earlier releases interpreted the…
NAME perl593delta – what is new for perl v5.9.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.9.2 and the 5.9.3 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta and perl592delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.2. Incompatible Changes Parsing of -f _ The identifier "_" is now forced to be a bareword after a filetest operator. This…
NAME perl592delta – what is new for perl v5.9.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.9.1 and the 5.9.2 development releases. See perl590delta and perl591delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.1. Incompatible Changes Packing and UTF-8 strings The semantics of pack() and unpack() regarding UTF-8-encoded data has been changed. Processing is now by…
NAME perl591delta – what is new for perl v5.9.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.9.0 and the 5.9.1 development releases. See perl590delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.0. Incompatible Changes substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length The lvalues returned by the three argument form of substr() used to be a “fixed length…
NAME perl590delta – what is new for perl v5.9.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.0 release and the 5.9.0 release. Incompatible Changes Hash Randomisation 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…
NAME perl58delta – what is new for perl v5.8.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.8.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.8.0 were already seen in the 5.6.1 maintenance release since the two releases were kept closely coordinated (while 5.8.0 was still called 5.7.something). Changes that were integrated…
NAME perl589delta – what is new for perl v5.8.9 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.8.9 release. Notice The 5.8.9 release will be the last significant release of the 5.8.x series. Any future releases of 5.8.x will likely only be to deal with security issues, and platform build failures. Hence…
NAME perl588delta – what is new for perl v5.8.8 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.7 release and the 5.8.8 release. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.8.7. If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. Core Enhancements • "chdir", "chmod" and "chown" can now work on filehandles as…
NAME perl587delta – what is new for perl v5.8.7 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.6 release and the 5.8.7 release. Incompatible Changes There are no changes incompatible with 5.8.6. Core Enhancements Unicode Character Database 4.1.0 The copy of the Unicode Character Database included in Perl 5.8 has been updated to 4.1.0 from 4.0.1….
NAME perl586delta – what is new for perl v5.8.6 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.5 release and the 5.8.6 release. Incompatible Changes There are no changes incompatible with 5.8.5. Core Enhancements The perl interpreter is now more tolerant of UTF-16-encoded scripts. On Win32, Perl can now use non-IFS compatible LSPs, which allows Perl…