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diff --git a/pod/perlembed.pod b/pod/perlembed.pod index 186dc88a7b..ea0e8331f2 100644 --- a/pod/perlembed.pod +++ b/pod/perlembed.pod @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Read L<perlcall> and L<perlxs>. =item B<Use a UNIX program from Perl?> -Read about backquotes and about C<system> and C<exec> in L<perlfunc>. +Read about back-quotes and about C<system> and C<exec> in L<perlfunc>. =item B<Use Perl from Perl?> @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ I<miniperlmain.c> containing the essentials of embedding: Note that we do not use the C<env> pointer here or in any of the following examples. -Normally handed to C<perl_parse> as it's final argument, +Normally handed to C<perl_parse> as its final argument, we hand it a B<NULL> instead, in which case the current environment is used. @@ -303,14 +303,14 @@ substitutions: I<match()>, I<substitute()>, and I<matches()>. char match(char *string, char *pattern); -Given a string and a pattern (e.g. "m/clasp/" or "/\b\w*\b/", which in +Given a string and a pattern (e.g., "m/clasp/" or "/\b\w*\b/", which in your program might be represented as C<"/\\b\\w*\\b/">), returns 1 if the string matches the pattern and 0 otherwise. int substitute(char *string[], char *pattern); -Given a pointer to a string and an "=~" operation (e.g. "s/bob/robert/g" or +Given a pointer to a string and an "=~" operation (e.g., "s/bob/robert/g" or "tr[A-Z][a-z]"), modifies the string according to the operation, returning the number of substitutions made. @@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ described in L<perlcall>. Once you've understood those, embedding Perl in C is easy. -Since C has no built-in function for integer exponentiation, let's +Because C has no built-in function for integer exponentiation, let's make Perl's ** operator available to it (this is less useful than it -sounds, since Perl implements ** with C's I<pow()> function). First +sounds, because Perl implements ** with C's I<pow()> function). First I'll create a stub exponentiation function in I<power.pl>: sub expo { @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ counterpart for each of the extension's XSUBs. Don't worry about this part; leave that to the I<xsubpp> and extension authors. If your extension is dynamically loaded, DynaLoader creates I<Module::bootstrap()> for you on the fly. In fact, if you have a working DynaLoader then there -is rarely any need to statically link in any other extensions. +is rarely any need to link in any other extensions statically. Once you have this code, slap it into the second argument of I<perl_parse()>: @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ Consult L<perlxs> and L<perlguts> for more details. =head1 MORAL You can sometimes I<write faster code> in C, but -you can always I<write code faster> in Perl. Since you can use +you can always I<write code faster> in Perl. Because you can use each from the other, combine them as you wish. |