Pod improvements suggested by Matthew Horsfall

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index d8a5839dd4..73440be00e 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ XXX Any important notices here
 
 =head1 Core Enhancements
 
-=head2 iterating over multiple values at a time.
+=head2 iterating over multiple values at a time
 
 As of Perl 5.36, you can iterate over multiple values at a time by specifying
 a list of lexicals within parentheses. For example,
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 65195da954..7efc1375ea 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2448,7 +2448,7 @@ same name?
 =item for my (...) is experimental
 
 (S experimental::for_list) This warning is emitted if you use C<for> to
-iterate multiple values n-at-a-time. This syntax is currently experimental
+iterate multiple values at a time. This syntax is currently experimental
 and its behaviour may change in future releases of Perl.
 
 =item Format not terminated
diff --git a/pod/perlsyn.pod b/pod/perlsyn.pod
index c62992f0ca..627c9647f4 100644
--- a/pod/perlsyn.pod
+++ b/pod/perlsyn.pod
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ The following compound statements may be used to control flow:
     PHASE BLOCK
 
 As of Perl 5.36, you can iterate over multiple values at a time by specifying
-a list of lexicals within parentheses
+a list of lexicals within parentheses:
 
     no warnings "experimental::for_list";
     LABEL for my (VAR, VAR) (LIST) BLOCK
@@ -558,13 +558,13 @@ followed by C<my>.  To use this form, you must enable the C<refaliasing>
 feature via C<use feature>.  (See L<feature>.  See also L<perlref/Assigning
 to References>.)
 
-As of Perl 5.36, you can iterate over a list of lexical scalars n-at-a-time.
-You can only iterate over scalars - unlike list assignment, it's not
-possible to use C<undef> to signify a value that isn't wanted.  This is a
-limitation of the current implementation, and might be changed in the
-future.
+As of Perl 5.36, you can iterate over multiple values at a time.
+You can only iterate with lexical scalars as the iterator variables - unlike
+list assignment, it's not possible to use C<undef> to signify a value that
+isn't wanted.  This is a limitation of the current implementation, and might
+be changed in the future.
 
-If the size of the LIST is not an exact multiple of number of iterator
+If the size of the LIST is not an exact multiple of the number of iterator
 variables, then on the last iteration the "excess" iterator variables are
 aliases to C<undef>, as if the LIST had C<, undef> appended as many times as
 needed for its length to become an exact multiple.  This happens whether