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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-12-20 16:19:00 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-12-20 16:19:00 +0000
commit40b7eeef93cf0584b0d7d850beb70a00e3135bc3 (patch)
treea178de94f30854526876766cff54ed12ea77fec7 /pod
parentbe99777f11f45794695cc66d8f318d65df2f1d77 (diff)
downloadperl-40b7eeef93cf0584b0d7d850beb70a00e3135bc3.tar.gz
pod tweaks
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4699
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod12
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfilter.pod5
-rw-r--r--pod/perlopentut.pod4
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index f6818594e8..3a48ef4672 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_62)
+perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_64)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and this one.
=head2 Perl Source Incompatibilities
-Beware that any new warnings that have been added or enhanced old
-warnings are B<not> considered incompatible changes.
+Beware that any new warnings that have been added or old ones
+that have been enhanced are B<not> considered incompatible changes.
Since all new warnings must be explicitly requested via the C<-w>
switch or the C<warnings> pragma, it is ultimately the programmer's
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ responsibility to ensure that warnings are enabled judiciously.
=item STOP is a new keyword
-In addition to C<BEGIN>, C<INIT> and C<END>, subroutines named
-C<STOP> are now special. They are queued up for execution at the
-end of compilation, and cannot be called directly.
+In addition to C<BEGIN>, C<INIT>, C<END>, C<DESTROY> and C<AUTOLOAD>,
+subroutines named C<STOP> are now special. They are queued up for
+execution at the end of compilation, and cannot be called directly.
=item Treatment of list slices of undef has changed
diff --git a/pod/perlfilter.pod b/pod/perlfilter.pod
index f3ab788ffc..a2eb1d855b 100644
--- a/pod/perlfilter.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfilter.pod
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Every source stream is associated with only one file.
A source filter is a special kind of Perl module that intercepts and
modifies a source stream before it reaches the parser. A source filter
-changes the our diagram like this:
+changes our diagram like this:
file ----> filter ----> parser
@@ -510,8 +510,7 @@ doesn't know Perl. It can be fooled quite easily:
EOM
Such things aside, you can see that a lot can be achieved with a modest
-amount of code. I<[Note that Tuomas' toy VRML parser on p. 17 had the
-same difficulty parsing VRML strings that look like comments. -Jon]>
+amount of code.
=head1 CONCLUSION
diff --git a/pod/perlopentut.pod b/pod/perlopentut.pod
index dbb3a0bd83..5d2be3039e 100644
--- a/pod/perlopentut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlopentut.pod
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ special way. If you open minus for reading, it really means to access
the standard input. If you open minus for writing, it really means to
access the standard output.
-If minus can be used as the default input or default output? What happens
+If minus can be used as the default input or default output, what happens
if you open a pipe into or out of minus? What's the default command it
-would run? The same script as you're current running! This is actually
+would run? The same script as you're currently running! This is actually
a stealth C<fork> hidden inside an C<open> call. See L<perlipc/"Safe Pipe
Opens"> for details.