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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-08-08 18:28:13 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-08-08 18:28:13 +0000
commit91e74348ab129f737e0d9da75481cd4eb7414ba4 (patch)
treeb700d3ed7ddb36fb2d15c007f31f5bd0346d8418 /ext/IO
parent1426bbf4b7d39af0f80ec0afcb4869d2bc3f0a90 (diff)
downloadperl-91e74348ab129f737e0d9da75481cd4eb7414ba4.tar.gz
Do away with array context, from Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
(either perlbug or p5p ate the original), plus regen perlapi and perltoc. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6553
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/IO')
-rw-r--r--ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm8
-rw-r--r--ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm b/ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
index 930df55fec..9d84206b5c 100644
--- a/ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+++ b/ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
@@ -115,13 +115,13 @@ Returns true if the object is currently a valid file descriptor.
=item $io->getline
This works like <$io> described in L<perlop/"I/O Operators">
-except that it's more readable and can be safely called in an
-array context but still returns just one line.
+except that it's more readable and can be safely called in a
+list context but still returns just one line.
=item $io->getlines
-This works like <$io> when called in an array context to
-read all the remaining lines in a file, except that it's more readable.
+This works like <$io> when called in a list context to read all
+the remaining lines in a file, except that it's more readable.
It will also croak() if accidentally called in a scalar context.
=item $io->ungetc ( ORD )
diff --git a/ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm b/ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
index 6884f02cf8..b8da092669 100644
--- a/ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+++ b/ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ perform the system call C<accept> on the socket and return a new object. The
new object will be created in the same class as the listen socket, unless
C<PKG> is specified. This object can be used to communicate with the client
that was trying to connect. In a scalar context the new socket is returned,
-or undef upon failure. In an array context a two-element array is returned
+or undef upon failure. In a list context a two-element array is returned
containing the new socket and the peer address; the list will
be empty upon failure.