Branch: refs/heads/blead
Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5
Commit: 57fb4502d8032d9a870b52b241e19dc65af57776
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/57fb4502d8032d9a870b52b241e19dc65af57776
Author: Dan Book <gri...@grinnz.com>
Date: 2020-03-12 (Thu, 12 Mar 2020)
Changed paths:
M lib/PerlIO.pm
Log Message:
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Rework PerlIO documentation
- Add Layers section in the description, giving details of how layers work and
encompassing the list of built-in layers
- Add various information relevant to modern usage of each layer
- Consistently refer to layers with a leading colon
- Redo :utf8 and :bytes layer descriptions
- Remove references to using the :utf8 layer for UTF-8 translation
- Add :scalar layer
- Move description of default layers that was oddly in "Querying" section to
the end of "Defaults" section
- Correct default layers to specify that PERLIO=:stdio will always result in
default layers of :stdio
- Update all examples to be strict-safe and check for open/binmode failure
- Capitalize references to Perl consistently
