From 12f3ad4ebe4097bd8c213e744ff27acdf4cbdc2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Father Chrysostomos Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:06:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] perldelta: present tense for changes alreday in effect plus formatting tweaks --- pod/perldelta.pod | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index b8a3039..cf20b57 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ phones. This conflicts with the long-standing Perl usage of having C mean the ASCII C character, U+0007. In Perl 5.14, C<\N{BELL}> will continue to mean U+0007, but its use will generate a deprecated warning message, unless such warnings are turned off. The -new name for U+0007 in Perl will be C, which corresponds nicely -with the existing shorthand sequence for it, C<"\a">. C<\N{BEL}> will -mean U+0007, with no warning given. The character at U+1F514 will not +new name for U+0007 in Perl is C, which corresponds nicely +with the existing shorthand sequence for it, C<"\a">. C<\N{BEL}> +means U+0007, with no warning given. The character at U+1F514 will not have a name in 5.14, but can be referred to by C<\N{U+1F514}>. The plan is that in Perl 5.16, C<\N{BELL}> will refer to U+1F514, and so all code that uses C<\N{BELL}> should convert by then to using C<\N{ALERT}>, @@ -372,11 +372,11 @@ result of stringifying the object. =head3 Assignment to C<$0> sets the legacy process name with C on Linux -On Linux the legacy process name will be set with L, in +On Linux the legacy process name is now set with L, in addition to altering the POSIX name via C as perl has done -since version 4.000. Now system utilities that read the legacy process +since version 4.000. Now system utilities that read the legacy process name such as ps, top and killall will recognize the name you set when -assigning to C<$0>. The string you supply will be cut off at 16 bytes, +assigning to C<$0>. The string you supply will be cut off at 16 bytes; this is a limitation imposed by Linux. =head3 C now returns the seed -- 2.7.4