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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-09-23 03:40:57 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-09-23 03:40:57 +0000
commit638bc1181648408738bc0f85920fa60225c46a73 (patch)
treebe472bcaa36371fa519b7be765a65f7cac691f68 /pod/perlport.pod
parent2c92fcc021607c4bf4864b88404323ad4f5d9156 (diff)
downloadperl-638bc1181648408738bc0f85920fa60225c46a73.tar.gz
better diagnostic for do{} used as lvalue
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1808
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ should be considered a perpetual work in progress
=head2 Newlines
-In most operating systems, lines in files are separated with newlines.
+In most operating systems, lines in files are terminated by newlines.
Just what is used as a newline may vary from OS to OS. Unix
traditionally uses C<\012>, one kind of Windows I/O uses C<\015\012>,
and S<Mac OS> uses C<\015>.