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author | James E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org> | 2021-05-20 23:35:02 -0400 |
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committer | James E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org> | 2021-05-31 09:49:13 -0400 |
commit | ffa5817eaaa39d5cbd7b8218784aec894b24b2fc (patch) | |
tree | 225bc0f40dc021a125546a8e0522da2d9e0c9917 /pod | |
parent | 047a0ea72f583771e88b81f628b4e3468b794b37 (diff) | |
download | perl-ffa5817eaaa39d5cbd7b8218784aec894b24b2fc.tar.gz |
Improve grammar
Per suggestion by oodler577 in https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/18736.
With correction reported as needed by grinnz in
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/18806.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlnumber.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlnumber.pod b/pod/perlnumber.pod index d77fe68458..45eacdc7f1 100644 --- a/pod/perlnumber.pod +++ b/pod/perlnumber.pod @@ -128,11 +128,11 @@ used may lead to breakage of some of the above rules. =head1 Flavors of Perl numeric operations -Perl operations which take a numeric argument treat that argument in one -of four different ways: they may force it to one of the integer/floating/ -string formats, or they may behave differently depending on the format of -the operand. Forcing a numeric value to a particular format does not -change the number stored in the value. +Perl operations which take a numeric argument treat that argument in one of +four different ways: they may force it to one of the integer, floating, or +string formats; or they may behave differently depending on the format of the +operand. Forcing a numeric value to a particular format does not change the +number stored in the value. All the operators which need an argument in the integer format treat the argument as in modular arithmetic, e.g., C<mod 2**32> on a 32-bit |