=back
-=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/10/16
-13:27:22 $)
+=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/11/19
+17:09:37 $)
=over 4
STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join
EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST, last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc,
lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen
-SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, lock, log EXPR, log, lstat
-EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir
-FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv
+SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, lock THING, log EXPR, log,
+lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK,
+mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv
ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRIBUTES,
next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open
FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,
$>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $),
$PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D,
$SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O,
-$PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200,
-$LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME,
-$^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS},
-${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV, $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC,
-@_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
+${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
+0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S,
+$BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W,
+${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV,
+$ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
=item Error Indicators
=item Regular Expressions
-cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
+[1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
=item Extended Patterns
=back
-=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2001/11/09
-08:06:04 $)
+=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.10 $, $Date: 2001/11/19
+17:09:37 $)
=over 4
=item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
-=item What is undump?
-
=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
-the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is there enough
-documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much
-work?, Patches speak louder than words
+the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
+tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
+Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
=over 4
=back
-=head2 perldelta - what will be new for perl v5.8.0
+=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Incompatible Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item 64-bit platforms and malloc
+
+=item AIX Dynaloading
+
+=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
+
+=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
+
+=item Perl Parser Stress Tested
+
+=item Deprecations
+
+=back
+
+=item Core Enhancements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
+
+=item PerlIO is Now The Default
+
+=item Signals Are Now Safe
+
+=item Understanding of Numbers
+
+=back
+
+=item Modules and Pragmata
+
+=over 4
+
+=item New Modules
+
+=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
+
+=back
+
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=item New Documentation
+
+=item Performance Enhancements
+
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Generic Improvements
+
+=item New Or Improved Platforms
+
+=back
+
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
+
+=back
+
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+=item Changed Internals
+
+=item Security Vulnerability Closed
+
+=item New Tests
+
+=item Known Problems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item AIX
+
+=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
+
+=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
+
+=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
+
+=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
+
+=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
+
+=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
+
+=item OS/390
+
+=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
+
+=item Failure of Thread tests
+
+=item UNICOS
+
+=item UTS
+
+=item VMS
+
+=item Win32
+
+=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
+
+=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
+
+=item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
+
+=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
+
+=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+
+=item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
+
+=back
+
=item Reporting Bugs
=item SEE ALSO
=back
+=head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
=over 4
=back
+=head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item WriteFile
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item Enforcing redispatch
+
+=item Avoiding repetitions
+
+=back
+
=item AUTHOR
=item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
=item METHODS
-banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), mail ( ADDRESS [,
-OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail ( ADDRESS ), send_and_mail (
-ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ),
-to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc (
-ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [ DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify
-( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ), quit ()
+banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME,
+PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail (
+ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [,
+ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc (
+ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [
+DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ),
+quit ()
=item SEE ALSO
$obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
$obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
+=over 4
+
+=item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle
+
+=back
+
=back
=head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
B<_replace_special_chars>
+B<_replace_special_chars_late>
+
B<_create_label>
B<_create_index>
B<_clean_latex_commands>
+B<_split_delimited>
+
=over 4
=item NOTES
=back
+=head2 Pod::t::basic, basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in
+translators.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item HEADINGS
+
+=item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
+
+=over 4
+
+=item ``Level'' "2 I<heading>
+
+=back
+
+=item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
+
+=over 4
+
+=item ``Level'' 2 I<heading>
+
+=back
+
+=item LINKS
+
+=item OVER AND ITEMS
+
+This is a test, a, b, a, b, c, d, "foo", B<bar>, C<baz>, Some longer item
+text
+
+=item FORMATTING CODES
+
+E<amp>, E<apos>, E<lt>, E<gt>, E<quot>, E<sol>
+
+=item VERBATIM
+
+=back
+
=head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+B<Tgetent>, OSPEED, TERM
+
+B<Tpad>, B<$string>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
+
+B<Tputs>, B<$cap>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
+
+B<Tgoto>, B<$cap>, B<$col>, B<$row>, B<$FH>
+
+B<Trequire>
+
+=over 4
+
=item EXAMPLES
+=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
=item EXAMPLES
-=item AUTHOR
-
=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
=head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
=over 4
-=item Comparision functions
+=item Comparison functions
B<is_deeply>
Making your own ok(), The eq_* family have some caveats, Test::Harness
upgrades
-=item AUTHOR
-
=item HISTORY
=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
=head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
=item HISTORY
-=item AUTHOR
-
=item SEE ALSO
-L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Pod::Tests>, L<SelfTest>,
+L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Test::Inline>, L<SelfTest>,
L<Test::Harness>
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
=head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
=item FOOTNOTES
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
=head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
projects / platform / upstream / perl.git / commitdiff