Changes for version v5.6.0

  • The English module now sets $PERL_VERSION to $^V (a string value) rather than C<$]> (a numeric value). (This is a potential incompatibility. Send us a report via perlbug if you are affected by this.)
  • The v1.2.3 syntax is also now legal in Perl. See L<Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals> for more on that.
  • To cope with the new versioning system's use of at least three significant digits for each version component, the method used for incrementing the subversion number has also changed slightly. We assume that versions older than v5.6.0 have been incrementing the subversion component in multiples of

Documentation

Appropriate format for patches to the perl source tree
Notes on handling the Perl Patch Pumpkin
Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
Practical Extraction and Report Language
what's new for perl5.004
what's new for perl5.005
autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
perl's IO abstraction interface.
Perl book information
Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
Perl calling conventions from C
Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
Perl data types
Perl DBM Filters
Guts of Perl debugging
Perl debugging
what's new for perl v5.6.0
various Perl diagnostics
Perl Data Structures Cookbook
how to embed perl in your C program
frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23 20:38:02 $)
General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)
Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.49 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 20:37:49 $)
Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
Regexes ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 20:36:18 $)
System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 18:37:57 $)
Networking ($Revision: 1.26 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
Source Filters
Perl's fork() emulation
Perl formats
Perl builtin functions
Introduction to the Perl API
How to hack at the Perl internals
the Perl history records
autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions
Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
Perl Lexical Warnings
Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)
Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
Installing CPAN Modules
constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
Perl objects
Perl operators and precedence
tutorial on opening things in Perl
plain old documentation
Writing portable Perl
Perl regular expressions
Perl references and nested data structures
Mark's very short tutorial about references
how to execute the Perl interpreter
Perl security
Perl style guide
Perl subroutines
Perl syntax
tutorial on threads in Perl
how to hide an object class in a simple variable
perl documentation table of contents
Perl TO-DO List
Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
Perl traps for the unwary
Unicode support in Perl
Perl predefined variables
XS language reference manual
Tutorial for writing XSUBs
VMS-specific documentation for Perl
Awk to Perl translator

Modules

Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, subject to change)

Provides

in lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
in lib/AutoLoader.pm
in lib/AutoSplit.pm
B
in ext/B/B.pm
in ext/B/B/Asmdata.pm
in ext/B/B/Assembler.pm
in ext/B/B/Bblock.pm
in ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm
in ext/B/B/C.pm
in ext/B/B/C.pm
in ext/B/B/CC.pm
in ext/B/B/Debug.pm
in ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
in ext/B/B/Disassembler.pm
in ext/B/B/Disassembler.pm
in ext/B/B/Lint.pm
in ext/B/B.pm
in ext/B/B/CC.pm
in ext/B/B.pm
in ext/B/B/CC.pm
in ext/B/B/Showlex.pm
in ext/B/B/Stackobj.pm
in ext/B/B/Stash.pm
in ext/B/B/Terse.pm
in ext/B/B/Xref.pm
in lib/Benchmark.pm
in ext/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.pm
CGI
in lib/CGI.pm
in lib/CGI/Carp.pm
in lib/CGI/Cookie.pm
in lib/CGI/Fast.pm
in lib/CGI/Pretty.pm
in lib/CGI/Push.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/CPAN.pm
in lib/Carp.pm
in lib/Carp/Heavy.pm
in lib/Class/Struct.pm
in lib/Class/Struct.pm
Cwd
in lib/Cwd.pm
in ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
in ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
in ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
in ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
in ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.pm
in ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.pm
in ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm
in lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm
in lib/DirHandle.pm
in lib/Dumpvalue.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm
in lib/English.pm
Env
in lib/Env.pm
in lib/Env.pm
in lib/Env.pm
in lib/Exporter.pm
in lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Installed.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Packlist.pm
in vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/testlib.pm
in lib/Fatal.pm
in ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
Fh
in lib/CGI.pm
in lib/File/Basename.pm
in lib/File/CheckTree.pm
in lib/File/Compare.pm
in lib/File/Copy.pm
in lib/File/DosGlob.pm
in lib/File/Find.pm
in ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm
in lib/File/Path.pm
in lib/File/Spec.pm
in lib/File/Spec/Functions.pm
in lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm
in lib/File/Spec/OS2.pm
in lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm
in lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
in lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm
in lib/File/stat.pm
in lib/FileCache.pm
in lib/FileHandle.pm
in lib/FindBin.pm
in ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm
in lib/Getopt/Long.pm
in lib/Getopt/Std.pm
in lib/I18N/Collate.pm
IO
in ext/IO/IO.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Dir.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Poll.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm
in ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/UNIX.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm
in lib/IPC/Open2.pm
in lib/IPC/Open3.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Semaphore.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Semaphore.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/SysV.pm
JNI
in jpl/JNI/JNI.pm
in jpl/JPL/AutoLoader.pm
in jpl/JPL/Class.pm
in jpl/JPL/Compile.pm
MM
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
MY
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
in lib/Math/BigFloat.pm
in lib/Math/BigInt.pm
in lib/Math/Complex.pm
in lib/Math/Trig.pm
in lib/CGI.pm
in ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.pm
in lib/Net/Ping.pm
in lib/Net/hostent.pm
in lib/Net/netent.pm
in lib/Net/protoent.pm
in lib/Net/servent.pm
O
in ext/B/O.pm
in ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/DLL/DLL.pm
in os2/OS2/ExtAttr/ExtAttr.pm
in os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/Process/Process.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
in ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
in ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
in lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
in lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
in lib/Pod/Checker.pm
in lib/Pod/Find.pm
in lib/Pod/Functions.pm
in lib/Pod/Html.pm
in lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
in lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
in lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
in lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
in lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
in lib/Pod/Man.pm
in lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
in lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
in lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
in lib/Pod/Parser.pm
in lib/Pod/Plainer.pm
in lib/Pod/Select.pm
in lib/Pod/Text.pm
in lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm
in lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm
in lib/Pod/Usage.pm
in ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.pm
in ext/Opcode/Safe.pm
in lib/Search/Dict.pm
in lib/SelectSaver.pm
in lib/SelfLoader.pm
in lib/Shell.pm
in ext/Socket/Socket.pm
in lib/Symbol.pm
in ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.pm
in ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
in lib/CGI.pm
in lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm
in lib/Term/Cap.pm
in lib/Term/Complete.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Test.pm
in lib/Test/Harness.pm
in lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
in lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
in lib/Text/Soundex.pm
in lib/Text/Tabs.pm
in lib/Text/Wrap.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread/Queue.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread/Semaphore.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread/Signal.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread/Specific.pm
in lib/Tie/Array.pm
in lib/Tie/Handle.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/RefHash.pm
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
in lib/Tie/Array.pm
in lib/Tie/Handle.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
in lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
in lib/Time/Local.pm
in lib/Time/gmtime.pm
in lib/Time/localtime.pm
in lib/Time/tm.pm
in lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
in lib/User/grent.pm
in lib/User/pwent.pm
in vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm
in vms/ext/Filespec.pm
in vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
in vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
in lib/attributes.pm
in ext/attrs/attrs.pm
in lib/autouse.pm
in lib/base.pm
in lib/blib.pm
in lib/bytes.pm
in lib/charnames.pm
in lib/constant.pm
in lib/diagnostics.pm
in lib/fields.pm
in lib/filetest.pm
in lib/integer.pm
in jpl/JPL/AutoLoader.pm
in lib/less.pm
lib
in lib/lib.pm
in lib/locale.pm
in lib/open.pm
ops
in ext/Opcode/ops.pm
in lib/overload.pm
re
in ext/re/re.pm
in lib/sigtrap.pm
in lib/strict.pm
in lib/subs.pm
in lib/utf8.pm
in lib/vars.pm
in vms/ext/vmsish.pm
in lib/warnings.pm
in lib/warnings/register.pm