--- perlop.pod~ Sun Mar 19 07:17:07 2000
+++ perlop.pod  Tue May  2 12:46:28 2000
@@ -788,14 +788,14 @@
 
 PATTERN may contain variables, which will be interpolated (and the
 pattern recompiled) every time the pattern search is evaluated, except
-for when the delimiter is a single quote.  (Note that C<$)> and C<$|>
-might not be interpolated because they look like end-of-string tests.)
-If you want such a pattern to be compiled only once, add a C</o> after
-the trailing delimiter.  This avoids expensive run-time recompilations,
-and is useful when the value you are interpolating won't change over
-the life of the script.  However, mentioning C</o> constitutes a promise
-that you won't change the variables in the pattern.  If you change them,
-Perl won't even notice.  See also L<"qr//">.
+for when the delimiter is a single quote.  (Note that C<$(>, C<$)>, and
+C<$|> might not be interpolated because they look like end-of-string
+tests.) If you want such a pattern to be compiled only once, add a C</o>
+after the trailing delimiter.  This avoids expensive run-time
+recompilations, and is useful when the value you are interpolating won't
+change over the life of the script.  However, mentioning C</o> constitutes
+a promise that you won't change the variables in the pattern.  If you
+change them, Perl won't even notice.  See also L<"qr//">.
 
 If the PATTERN evaluates to the empty string, the last
 I<successfully> matched regular expression is used instead.


End of patch.

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by frogleg at Sun Aug  8 13:32:51 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=5.2, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux ficus.frogspace.net 2.2.6-ac3 #2 thu aug 5 09:35:04 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/newton
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/newton:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash