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Porting/epigraphs.pod
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@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ L<Announced on 2019-03-21 by Zak Elep|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5
L<Announced on 2019-02-20 by Atoomic|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/02/msg253750.html>
=head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965.
=head2 v5.29.7 - Edsger W. Dijkstra: "Programming Considered as a Human Activity", IFIP Congress, New York, 1965
L<Announced on 2019-01-20 by Abigail|https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2019/01/msg253444.html>
@ -2425,7 +2425,7 @@ L<Announced on 2015-12-21 by David Golden|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pe
that could splinter the Republic forever and usher in
a new Empire of gradual typing....
=head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983.
=head2 v5.23.5 - utastro!nather (Ed Nather), "The Story of Mel", in net.jokes, May 21, 1983
L<Announced on 2015-11-20 by Abigail|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/11/msg232758.html>

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Porting/pumpkin.pod
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@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ should be updated?)]
We should never release a main version without testing it as a
subversion first.
=head2 Test popular applications and modules.
=head2 Test popular applications and modules
We should never release a main version without testing whether or not
it breaks various popular modules and applications. A partial list of

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Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
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@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/Utils.pm>
=back
=head4 Update C<Module::CoreList> with module version data for the new release.
=head4 Update C<Module::CoreList> with module version data for the new release
Note that if this is a MAINT release, you should run the following actions
from the maint branch, but commit the C<CoreList.pm> changes in

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README.os2
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@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ should be done "correctly".
=back
=head2 C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
=head2 C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS
This may a variant of just L</"I cannot run external programs">, or a
deeper problem. Basically: you I<need> RSX (see L</Prerequisites>)
@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ Here is the sample C file:
=head1 Build FAQ
=head2 Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
=head2 Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh
You have a very old pdksh. See L</Prerequisites>.

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README.solaris
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@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Note also that the perl command-line utilities (e.g. perldoc) and any
that are added by modules that you install will be under
/usr/perl5/bin, so that directory should be added to your PATH.
=head2 Solaris Version Numbers.
=head2 Solaris Version Numbers
For consistency with common usage, perl's Configure script performs
some minor manipulations on the operating system name and version
@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ All Solaris documentation is available on-line at L<http://docs.sun.com/>.
=head1 SETTING UP
=head2 File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
=head2 File Extraction Problems on Solaris
Be sure to use a tar program compiled under Solaris (not SunOS 4.x)
to extract the perl-5.x.x.tar.gz file. Do not use GNU tar compiled
@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ If you found this advice too late and used a SunOS4-compiled tar
anyway, you must find the incorrectly renamed file and move it back
to lib/locale.pm.
=head2 Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
=head2 Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris
You must use an ANSI C compiler to build perl. Perl can be compiled
with either Sun's add-on C compiler or with gcc. The C compiler that
shipped with SunOS4 will not do.
=head3 Include /usr/ccs/bin/ in your PATH.
=head3 Include /usr/ccs/bin/ in your PATH
Several tools needed to build perl are located in /usr/ccs/bin/: ar,
as, ld, and make. Make sure that /usr/ccs/bin/ is in your PATH.
@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ This will display a line like this:
The last item listed (SUNWhea in this example) is the package you need.
=head3 Avoid /usr/ucb/cc.
=head3 Avoid /usr/ucb/cc
You don't need to have /usr/ucb/ in your PATH to build perl. If you
want /usr/ucb/ in your PATH anyway, make sure that /usr/ucb/ is NOT
@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ the set-group-id bit is not set. If it is, then arrange your PATH so
that /usr/ccs/bin/make is before GNU make or else have the system
administrator disable the set-group-id bit on GNU make.
=head3 Avoid libucb.
=head3 Avoid libucb
Solaris provides some BSD-compatibility functions in /usr/ucblib/libucb.a.
Perl will not build and run correctly if linked against -lucb since it
@ -319,13 +319,13 @@ interception failed' errors! The runtime linker intercepts links to
"/usr/lib/libdl.so.1.0" and links in internal implementations of those
functions instead. [Thanks to Tim Bunce for this explanation.]
=head1 RUN CONFIGURE.
=head1 RUN CONFIGURE
See the INSTALL file for general information regarding Configure.
Only Solaris-specific issues are discussed here. Usually, the
defaults should be fine.
=head2 64-bit perl on Solaris.
=head2 64-bit perl on Solaris
See the INSTALL file for general information regarding 64-bit compiles.
In general, the defaults should be fine for most people.
@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ In general, the defaults should be fine for most people.
By default, perl-5.6.0 (or later) is compiled as a 32-bit application
with largefile and long-long support.
=head3 General 32-bit vs. 64-bit issues.
=head3 General 32-bit vs. 64-bit issues
Solaris 7 and above will run in either 32 bit or 64 bit mode on SPARC
CPUs, via a reboot. You can build 64 bit apps whilst running 32 bit
@ -450,17 +450,17 @@ in that release:
All this should be handled automatically by the hints file, if
requested.
=head3 Long Doubles.
=head3 Long Doubles
As of 5.8.1, long doubles are working if you use the Sun compilers
(needed for additional math routines not included in libm).
=head2 Threads in perl on Solaris.
=head2 Threads in perl on Solaris
It is possible to build a threaded version of perl on Solaris. The entire
perl thread implementation is still experimental, however, so beware.
=head2 Malloc Issues with perl on Solaris.
=head2 Malloc Issues with perl on Solaris
Starting from perl 5.7.1 perl uses the Solaris malloc, since the perl
malloc breaks when dealing with more than 2GB of memory, and the Solaris
@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ appears to go away under -DDEBUGGING, so it has been difficult to
track down. Sun's compiler appears to be okay with or without perl's
malloc. [XXX further investigation is needed here.]
=head1 MAKE PROBLEMS.
=head1 MAKE PROBLEMS
=over 4
@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ Solaris x86 looks something like this:
The lddlflags addition is the only abnormal bit.
=head1 PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
=head1 PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS
You can pick up prebuilt binaries for Solaris from
L<http://www.sunfreeware.com/>, L<http://www.blastwave.org>,
@ -556,9 +556,9 @@ page. There are probably other sources as well. Please note that
these sites are under the control of their respective owners, not the
perl developers.
=head1 RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
=head1 RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS
=head2 Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
=head2 Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris
The stdio(3C) manpage notes that for LP32 applications, only 255
files may be opened using fopen(), and only file descriptors 0
@ -571,13 +571,13 @@ also that the default resource limit for open file descriptors on
Solaris is 255, so you will have to modify your ulimit or rctl
(Solaris 9 onwards) appropriately.
=head1 SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
=head1 SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES
See the modules under the Solaris:: and Sun::Solaris namespaces on CPAN,
see L<http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Solaris/> and
L<http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Sun/>.
=head1 SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
=head1 SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES
=head2 Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris

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@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package SelfLoader;
use 5.008;
use strict;
use IO::Handle;
our $VERSION = "1.26";
our $VERSION = "1.27";
# The following bit of eval-magic is necessary to make this work on
# perls < 5.009005.
@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ to parse the code after the C<__DATA__>. Details of the B<AutoLoader> and
another view of these distinctions can be found in that module's
documentation.
=head2 __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
=head2 __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle
This section is only relevant if you want to use
the C<FOOBAR::DATA> together with the B<SelfLoader>.
@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ declarations.
You could conceivably do both.
=head2 Classes and inherited methods.
=head2 Classes and inherited methods
For modules which are not classes, this section is not relevant.
This section is only relevant if you have methods which could

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@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
BEGIN {
# make sure all our XS routines are available early so their prototypes
# are correctly applied in the following code.
our $VERSION = '0.30';
our $VERSION = '0.31';
require XSLoader;
XSLoader::load();
}
@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ may not be allocated even though this value will be non-zero.)
=back
=head2 Operating on references to hashes.
=head2 Operating on references to hashes
Most subroutines documented in this module have equivalent versions
that operate on references to hashes instead of native hashes.

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hints/README.hints
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ over from perl4.
Please report any problems or suggested changes at
L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
=head1 Hint file naming convention.
=head1 Hint file naming convention
Each hint file name should have only
one '.'. (This is for portability to non-unix file systems.) Names

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lib/perl5db.pl
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@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ BEGIN {
use vars qw($VERSION $header);
# bump to X.XX in blead, only use X.XX_XX in maint
$VERSION = '1.79';
$VERSION = '1.80';
$header = "perl5db.pl version $VERSION";
@ -3227,7 +3227,7 @@ Just uses C<DB::methods> to determine what methods are available.
Switch to a different filename.
=head4 C<.> - return to last-executed line.
=head4 C<.> - return to last-executed line
We set C<$incr> to -1 to indicate that the debugger shouldn't move ahead,
and then we look up the line in the magical C<%dbline> hash.
@ -3293,11 +3293,11 @@ appropriately, and force us out of the command loop.
Just calls C<DB::print_trace>.
=head4 C<w> - List window around current line.
=head4 C<w> - List window around current line
Just calls C<DB::cmd_w>.
=head4 C<W> - watch-expression processing.
=head4 C<W> - watch-expression processing
Just calls C<DB::cmd_W>.
@ -3381,7 +3381,7 @@ the bottom of the loop.
Manipulates C<%alias> to add or list command aliases.
=head4 C<source> - read commands from a file.
=head4 C<source> - read commands from a file
Opens a lexical filehandle and stacks it on C<@cmdfhs>; C<DB::readline> will
pick it up.
@ -3405,7 +3405,7 @@ Restart the debugger session.
Return to any given position in the B<true>-history list
=head4 C<|, ||> - pipe output through the pager.
=head4 C<|, ||> - pipe output through the pager
For C<|>, we save C<OUT> (the debugger's output filehandle) and C<STDOUT>
(the program's standard output). For C<||>, we only save C<OUT>. We open a
@ -9413,7 +9413,7 @@ If there's only one hit, and it's a package qualifier, and it's not equal to the
=back
=head3 Symbol completion: current package or package C<main>.
=head3 Symbol completion: current package or package C<main>
=cut
@ -9973,7 +9973,7 @@ sub cmd_pre580_null {
# do nothing...
}
=head2 Old C<a> command.
=head2 Old C<a> command
This version added actions if you supplied them, and deleted them
if you didn't.
@ -10082,7 +10082,7 @@ sub cmd_pre580_b {
}
} ## end sub cmd_pre580_b
=head2 Old C<D> command.
=head2 Old C<D> command
Delete all breakpoints unconditionally.

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pod/perl5005delta.pod
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@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ scheme.
=head1 Incompatible Changes
=head2 WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
=head2 WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004
Starting with Perl 5.004_50 there were many deep and far-reaching changes
to the language internals. If you have dynamically loaded extensions

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pod/perl5125delta.pod
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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ L<perl5124delta>, which describes differences between 5.12.3 and
A bug in C<Encode> could, on certain inputs, cause the heap to overflow.
This problem has been corrected. Bug reported by Robert Zacek.
=head2 C<File::Glob::bsd_glob()> memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728).
=head2 C<File::Glob::bsd_glob()> memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728)
Calling C<File::Glob::bsd_glob> with the unsupported flag GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC would
cause an access violation / segfault. A Perl program that accepts a flags value from
@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ A regression introduced in Perl 5.8.8 has been fixed, that caused
C<charnames::viacode(0)> to return C<undef> instead of the string "NULL"
[perl #72624].
=head3 L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 2.39 to version 2.39_01.
=head3 L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 2.39 to version 2.39_01
See L</Security>.
=head3 L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to version 1.07_01.
=head3 L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to version 1.07_01
See L</Security>.

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pod/perl5140delta.pod
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@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ as the latter returns a single code point.
See L<charnames> for details on all these changes.
=head3 New warnings categories for problematic (non-)Unicode code points.
=head3 New warnings categories for problematic (non-)Unicode code points
Three new warnings subcategories of "utf8" have been added. These
allow you to turn off some "utf8" warnings, while allowing

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pod/perl5142delta.pod
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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ No changes since 5.14.0.
=head1 Security
=head2 C<File::Glob::bsd_glob()> memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728).
=head2 C<File::Glob::bsd_glob()> memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728)
Calling C<File::Glob::bsd_glob> with the unsupported flag GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC would
cause an access violation / segfault. A Perl program that accepts a flags value from

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pod/perl5160delta.pod
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@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ strings.
Full details are in L<perlfunc/fc>.
=head3 The Unicode C<Script_Extensions> property is now supported.
=head3 The Unicode C<Script_Extensions> property is now supported
New in Unicode 6.0, this is an improved C<Script> property. Details
are in L<perlunicode/Scripts>.
@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ C<utf8_to_uvuni_buf()> are now available to prevent this, and the Perl
core has been converted to use them.
See L</Internal Changes>.
=head2 C<File::Glob::bsd_glob()> memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728).
=head2 C<File::Glob::bsd_glob()> memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728)
Calling C<File::Glob::bsd_glob> with the unsupported flag
GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC would cause an access violation / segfault. A Perl

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pod/perl5180delta.pod
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@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ behaviors, and since the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER has no use other than as
a stand-in for some unknown character, any code that has this problem is
buggy.
=head2 Formerly deprecated characters in C<\N{}> character name aliases are now errors.
=head2 Formerly deprecated characters in C<\N{}> character name aliases are now errors
Since v5.12.0, it has been deprecated to use certain characters in
user-defined C<\N{...}> character names. These now cause a syntax

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pod/perl5220delta.pod
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@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ allowed.
In prior releases, failure to do this raised a deprecation warning.
=head2 Splitting the tokens C<(?> and C<(*> in regular expressions is now a fatal compilation error.
=head2 Splitting the tokens C<(?> and C<(*> in regular expressions is now a fatal compilation error
These had been deprecated since v5.18.

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@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ L<[GH #14799]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14799>
L<[GH #13548]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13548>
=head2 The C</\C/> character class has been removed.
=head2 The C</\C/> character class has been removed
This regular expression character class was deprecated in v5.20.0 and has
produced a deprecation warning since v5.22.0. It is now a compile-time
@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ C<$Carp::MaxArgNums> is supposed to be the number of arguments to display.
Prior to this version, it was instead showing C<$Carp::MaxArgNums> + 1 arguments,
contrary to the documentation.
=head2 Only blanks and tabs are now allowed within C<[...]> within C<(?[...])>.
=head2 Only blanks and tabs are now allowed within C<[...]> within C<(?[...])>
The experimental Extended Bracketed Character Classes can contain regular
bracketed character classes within them. These differ from regular ones in

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pod/perl5260delta.pod
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@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ The fundamentally unsafe C<tmpnam()> interface was deprecated in
Perl 5.22 and has now been removed. In its place, you can use,
for example, the L<File::Temp> interfaces.
=head2 require ::Foo::Bar is now illegal.
=head2 require ::Foo::Bar is now illegal
Formerly, C<require ::Foo::Bar> would try to read F</Foo/Bar.pm>. Now any
bareword require which starts with a double colon dies instead.

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@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ rules for use with Turkic languages. Previously, Perl ignored these,
but now, it uses them when it detects that it is operating under a
Turkic UTF-8 locale.
=head2 It is now possible to compile perl to always use thread-safe locale operations.
=head2 It is now possible to compile perl to always use thread-safe locale operations
Previously, these calls were only used when the perl was compiled to be
multi-threaded. To always enable them, add
@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ by default, JSON::PP also enabled allow_nonref by default.
=head1 Deprecations
=head2 In XS code, use of various macros dealing with UTF-8.
=head2 In XS code, use of various macros dealing with UTF-8
This deprecation was scheduled to become fatal in 5.30, but has been
delayed to 5.32 due to problems that showed up with some CPAN modules.

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pod/perl587delta.pod
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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ script. By default this is not enabled, to be consistent with previous perl
releases. To use this, add C<-Dusesitecustomize> to the command line flags
when running the C<Configure> script. See also L<perlrun/-f>.
=head2 C<Config.pm> is now much smaller.
=head2 C<Config.pm> is now much smaller
C<Config.pm> is now about 3K rather than 32K, with the infrequently used
code and C<%Config> values loaded on demand. This is transparent to the

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pod/perl589delta.pod
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.
=head1 Core Enhancements
=head2 Unicode Character Database 5.1.0.
=head2 Unicode Character Database 5.1.0
The copy of the Unicode Character Database included in Perl 5.8 has
been updated to 5.1.0 from 4.1.0. See
@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ F<g++> support has been tuned, especially for FreeBSD.
F<mkppport> has been integrated, and all F<ppport.h> files in the core will now
be autogenerated at build time (and removed during cleanup).
=head2 Installation improvements.
=head2 Installation improvements
F<installman> now works with C<-Duserelocatableinc> and C<DESTDIR>.
@ -1954,7 +1954,7 @@ C<PerlIO::scalar>.
New error, introduced as part of the fix to RT #40641 to handle encoding
of Unicode characters in regular expression comments.
=head2 Your machine doesn't support dump/undump.
=head2 Your machine doesn't support dump/undump
A more informative fatal error issued when calling C<dump> on Win32 and
Cygwin. (Given that the purpose of C<dump> is to abort with a core dump,

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pod/perldbmfilter.pod
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@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ When each filter is called by Perl, a local copy of C<$_> will contain
the key or value to be filtered. Filtering is achieved by modifying
the contents of C<$_>. The return code from the filter is ignored.
=head2 An Example: the NULL termination problem.
=head2 An Example: the NULL termination problem
DBM Filters are useful for a class of problems where you I<always>
want to make the same transformation to all keys, all values or both.
@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ self-explanatory. Both "fetch" filters remove the terminating NULL,
and both "store" filters add a terminating NULL.
=head2 Another Example: Key is a C int.
=head2 Another Example: Key is a C int
Here is another real-life example. By default, whenever Perl writes to
a DBM database it always writes the key and value as strings. So when

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pod/perldeprecation.pod
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@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Perl 5.42.0 production release.
Category: "deprecated::smartmatch"
=head3 Use of C<'> as a global name separator.
=head3 Use of C<'> as a global name separator
Perl allows use of C<'> instead of C<::> to replace the parts of a
package or global variable name, for example C<A::B> and C<A'B> are
@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ C<{> got a deprecation warning. Some cases started warning in Perl 5.26,
and were made fatal in Perl 5.30. Other cases started in Perl 5.28,
and were made fatal in 5.32.
=head3 In XS code, use of various macros dealing with UTF-8.
=head3 In XS code, use of various macros dealing with UTF-8
The macros below now require an extra parameter than in versions prior
to Perl 5.32. The final parameter in each one is a pointer into the
@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ and an unqualified C<dump()> is no longer available as of Perl 5.30.
See L<perlfunc/dump>.
=head3 Using my() in false conditional.
=head3 Using my() in false conditional
There has been a long-standing bug in Perl that causes a lexical variable
not to be cleared at scope exit when its declaration includes a false
@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ The use of C<my()> in a false conditional has been deprecated in
Perl 5.10, and became a fatal error in Perl 5.30.
=head3 Reading/writing bytes from/to :utf8 handles.
=head3 Reading/writing bytes from/to :utf8 handles
The sysread(), recv(), syswrite() and send() operators are
deprecated on handles that have the C<:utf8> layer, either explicitly, or
@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ As of Perl 5.30, it is no longer be possible to use sysread(), recv(),
syswrite() or send() to read or send bytes from/to :utf8 handles.
=head3 Use of unassigned code point or non-standalone grapheme for a delimiter.
=head3 Use of unassigned code point or non-standalone grapheme for a delimiter
A grapheme is what appears to a native-speaker of a language to be a
character. In Unicode (and hence Perl) a grapheme may actually be
@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ You are recommended to change your code to set C<$/> to C<undef> explicitly
if you wish to slurp the file.
=head3 Limit on the value of Unicode code points.
=head3 Limit on the value of Unicode code points
Unicode only allows code points up to 0x10FFFF, but Perl allows
much larger ones. Up till Perl 5.28, it was allowed to use code
@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ than 32-bit ones. For 32-bit integers, C<IV_MAX> equals C<0x7FFFFFFF>,
for 64-bit integers, C<IV_MAX> equals C<0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF>.
=head3 Use of comma-less variable list in formats.
=head3 Use of comma-less variable list in formats
It was allowed to use a list of variables in a format, without
separating them with commas. This usage has been deprecated
@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ throws a fatal error as of Perl 5.28.
You should be using two different symbols instead.
=head3 ${^ENCODING} is no longer supported.
=head3 ${^ENCODING} is no longer supported
The special variable C<${^ENCODING}> was used to implement
the C<encoding> pragma. Setting this variable to anything other
@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ These old, perl3-era utilities have been deprecated in favour of
C<< h2xs >> for a long time. As of Perl 5.26, they have been removed.
=head3 Trapping C<< $SIG {__DIE__} >> other than during program exit.
=head3 Trapping C<< $SIG {__DIE__} >> other than during program exit
The C<$SIG{__DIE__}> hook is called even inside an C<eval()>. It was
never intended to happen this way, but an implementation glitch made

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pod/perlebcdic.pod
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@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ The sort order will cause differences between results obtained on
ASCII platforms versus EBCDIC platforms. What follows are some suggestions
on how to deal with these differences.
=head2 Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
=head2 Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences
This is the least computationally expensive strategy. It may require
some user education.
@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ Unicode-enabled Perl, do:
tr/ÿ/\x{178}/;
tr/µ/\x{39C}/;
=head2 Perform sorting on one type of platform only.
=head2 Perform sorting on one type of platform only
This strategy can employ a network connection. As such
it would be computationally expensive.

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@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ thus:
In this way (as for perl's scalars) a pointer to a PerlIOBuf can be
treated as a pointer to a PerlIOl.
=head2 Layers in action.
=head2 Layers in action
table perlio unix
| |

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@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ exact science, and why we love using Perl so much - TMTOWTDI.
Here are a few examples to demonstrate usage of Perl's benchmarking tools.
=head2 Assigning and Dereferencing Variables.
=head2 Assigning and Dereferencing Variables
I'm sure most of us have seen code which looks like, (or worse than), this: