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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000
commitc47ff5f1a1ef5d0daccf1724400a446cd8e93573 (patch)
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parent10c8fecdc2f0a2ef9c548abff5961fa25cd83eca (diff)
downloadperl-c47ff5f1a1ef5d0daccf1724400a446cd8e93573.tar.gz
whitespace and readabiliti nits in the pods (from Michael G Schwern
and Robin Barker) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5493
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diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod
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+++ b/pod/perlref.pod
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ brackets:
Here we've created a reference to an anonymous array of three elements
whose final element is itself a reference to another anonymous array of three
elements. (The multidimensional syntax described later can be used to
-access this. For example, after the above, C<$arrayref-E<gt>[2][1]> would have
+access this. For example, after the above, C<< $arrayref->[2][1] >> would have
the value "b".)
Taking a reference to an enumerated list is not the same
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ syntactic sugar, the examples for method 2 may be written:
The left side of the arrow can be any expression returning a reference,
including a previous dereference. Note that C<$array[$x]> is I<not> the
-same thing as C<$array-E<gt>[$x]> here:
+same thing as C<< $array->[$x] >> here:
$array[$x]->{"foo"}->[0] = "January";
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ This is one of the cases we mentioned earlier in which references could
spring into existence when in an lvalue context. Before this
statement, C<$array[$x]> may have been undefined. If so, it's
automatically defined with a hash reference so that we can look up
-C<{"foo"}> in it. Likewise C<$array[$x]-E<gt>{"foo"}> will automatically get
+C<{"foo"}> in it. Likewise C<< $array[$x]->{"foo"} >> will automatically get
defined with an array reference so that we can look up C<[0]> in it.
This process is called I<autovivification>.