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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-04-24 06:11:56 +0000 |
commit | 4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6 (patch) | |
tree | 9418d63a58345f7e8f9e1ff644fa85c022b18650 /pod/perlmod.pod | |
parent | 94a371ee7128c99a38226de46cbec028ae3a990e (diff) | |
download | perl-4375e838ae24b385ae79fa7b6918e613bedaaee6.tar.gz |
various pod nits (from Larry Virden and others)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5917
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlmod.pod b/pod/perlmod.pod index 63324a41f4..bbafbfbc5f 100644 --- a/pod/perlmod.pod +++ b/pod/perlmod.pod @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ table lookups at compile time: local $main::{foo} = $main::{bar}; You can use this to print out all the variables in a package, for -instance. The standard but antequated F<dumpvar.pl> library and +instance. The standard but antiquated F<dumpvar.pl> library and the CPAN module Devel::Symdump make use of this. Assignment to a typeglob performs an aliasing operation, i.e., @@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ LIFO order. C<CHECK> blocks are again useful in the Perl compiler suite to save the compiled state of the program. When you use the B<-n> and B<-p> switches to Perl, C<BEGIN> and -C<END> work just as they do in B<awk>, as a degenerate case. As currently -implemented (and subject to change, since its inconvenient at best), -both C<BEGIN> and<END> blocks are run when you use the B<-c> switch -for a compile-only syntax check, although your main code is not. +C<END> work just as they do in B<awk>, as a degenerate case. +Both C<BEGIN> and C<CHECK> blocks are run when you use the B<-c> +switch for a compile-only syntax check, although your main code +is not. =head2 Perl Classes @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ providing a mechanism for exporting some of its symbols into the symbol table of any package using it. Or it may function as a class definition and make its semantics available implicitly through method calls on the class and its objects, without explicitly -exportating anything. Or it can do a little of both. +exporting anything. Or it can do a little of both. For example, to start a traditional, non-OO module called Some::Module, create a file called F<Some/Module.pm> and start with this template: |