perl patches 16 and 17

[Johan Vromans]

>From article <935 at taux01.UUCP>, by cjosta at taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler):
> I tried to apply patches 16 and 17 to perl but had a problem compiling
> perly.c.  In line 526 it says that origargv is undefined. [...]
> Can we have an
> official patch for this, Larry?  Thanks.

I ran into the same problems, so I second this.

If I may express my humble opinion (although I consider Larry to
be a real software engineering guru): patches 16/17 have
introduced new functionality to perl, namely 'tainting', '$]' and
'getc'.
Does this not deserve incrementing the perl version number to 2.1
instead of just the patchlevel?

When looking for other changes, I compared the new manual page
with an older one. Then I found out that the perl version number
(including current patchlevel) does not appear in the (printed)
documentation. Shouldn't it be included somewhere?

BTW: currently perl identifies itself with:
  $Header: perly.c,v 2.0.1.9 88/11/19 00:14:36 lwall Locked $
  Patch level: 17
which occurs to me a bit cryptic.
-- 
	Johan