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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2013-11-03 05:42:55 -0800
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2013-11-04 05:10:18 -0800
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parentddbc26e57f1b560af69ffe5b3f09ba053923edae (diff)
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gv.c: Tweak API docs
Consistent spaces after dots Some grammar corrections (by no means sufficient, though) Remove a sentence about ‘name’ being writable. It has been a const char * since these docs were added in 954c1994.
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diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 2b8812923b..905d1313fb 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -902,16 +902,16 @@ means yes, look for AUTOLOAD; zero means no, don't look for AUTOLOAD.
Calling C<gv_fetchmethod> is equivalent to calling C<gv_fetchmethod_autoload>
with a non-zero C<autoload> parameter.
-These functions grant C<"SUPER"> token as a prefix of the method name. Note
+These functions grant C<"SUPER"> token
+as a prefix of the method name. Note
that if you want to keep the returned glob for a long time, you need to
check for it being "AUTOLOAD", since at the later time the call may load a
-different subroutine due to $AUTOLOAD changing its value. Use the glob
-created via a side effect to do this.
+different subroutine due to $AUTOLOAD changing its value. Use the glob
+created as a side effect to do this.
-These functions have the same side-effects and as C<gv_fetchmeth> with
-C<level==0>. C<name> should be writable if contains C<':'> or C<'
-''>. The warning against passing the GV returned by C<gv_fetchmeth> to
-C<call_sv> apply equally to these functions.
+These functions have the same side-effects as C<gv_fetchmeth> with
+C<level==0>. The warning against passing the GV returned by
+C<gv_fetchmeth> to C<call_sv> applies equally to these functions.
=cut
*/