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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000
commit87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876 (patch)
tree3f8e18dd43f70fe33e25ec58f37ac2a0bea79a51 /pod/perlvar.pod
parentfa9c2ea87c89382fe822598450654e31bdb24ee0 (diff)
downloadperl-87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876.tar.gz
pod fixes (with minor edits) from Abigail, Ronald Kimball, Jon
Waddington, Tuomas Lukka, Steven Tolkin, Ian Phillipps, and Steve Lidie p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3676
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index c13c41742b..3a38f553c6 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -45,9 +45,7 @@ you try to assign to this variable, either directly or indirectly through
a reference, you'll raise a run-time exception.
The following list is ordered by scalar variables first, then the
-arrays, then the hashes (except $^M was added in the wrong place).
-This is somewhat obscured because %ENV and %SIG are listed as
-$ENV{expr} and $SIG{expr}.
+arrays, then the hashes.
=over 8
@@ -868,7 +866,7 @@ The hash %INC contains entries for each filename included via the
C<do>, C<require>, or C<use> operators. The key is the filename
you specified (with module names converted to pathnames), and the
value is the location of the file found. The C<require>
-operator uses this array to determine whether a particular file has
+operator uses this hash to determine whether a particular file has
already been included.
=item %ENV
@@ -1047,7 +1045,7 @@ C<W>) is the scalar variable whose name is the single character
control-C<W>. This is better than typing a literal control-C<W>
into your program.
-Finally, new in Perl 5.006, Perl variable names may be alphanumeric
+Finally, new in Perl 5.6, Perl variable names may be alphanumeric
strings that begin with control characters (or better yet, a caret).
These variables must be written in the form C<${^Foo}>; the braces
are not optional. C<${^Foo}> denotes the scalar variable whose