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authorMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2009-04-07 17:46:00 -0500
committerYves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com>2009-04-08 01:09:48 +0200
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treea7e34fdcc0e01b62d87bd3d26ba6e1bffc1ce85b /pod/perlboot.pod
parent9014bf7fb40f4d1f965fea9b38407a965a887e3d (diff)
downloadperl-9fd5bac037f142635de54421551d6c2d35ca66ed.tar.gz
Docs: Fixed a couple of [my] typos
I read through each my patches again and came across a typo, a slight incorrectness, and a repeated word. Sorry. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/pod/perlboot.pod b/pod/perlboot.pod
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@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ reference (and thus an instance). It then constructs an argument
list, as per usual.
Now for the fun part: Perl takes the class in which the instance was
-blessed, in this case C<Horse>, and uses that calss to locate the
+blessed, in this case C<Horse>, and uses that class to locate the
subroutine. In this case, C<Horse::sound> is found directly (without
using inheritance). In the end, it is as though our initial line were
written as follows:
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ Now with the new C<named> method, we can build a horse as follows:
Notice we're back to a class method, so the two arguments to
C<Horse::named> are C<Horse> and C<Mr. Ed>. The C<bless> operator
-not only blesses C<$name>, it also returns that reference.
+not only blesses C<\$name>, it also returns that reference.
This C<Horse::named> method is called a "constructor".
@@ -749,8 +749,8 @@ C<Animal> might still mess up, and we'd have to override all of those
too. Therefore, it's never a good idea to define the data layout in a
way that's different from the data layout of the base classes. In fact,
it's a good idea to use blessed hash references in all cases. Also, this
-is also why it's important to have constructors do the low-level work.
-So, let's redefine C<Animal>:
+is why it's important to have constructors do the low-level work. So,
+let's redefine C<Animal>:
## in Animal
sub name {