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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000 |
commit | 87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876 (patch) | |
tree | 3f8e18dd43f70fe33e25ec58f37ac2a0bea79a51 /pod/perlvar.pod | |
parent | fa9c2ea87c89382fe822598450654e31bdb24ee0 (diff) | |
download | perl-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
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlvar.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 8 |
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 |