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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 8722105c2b..174ff60f27 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ last value in the list. Some operators return a count of successful operations. In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency. -An named array in scalar context is quite different from what would at +A named array in scalar context is quite different from what would at first glance appear to be a list in scalar context. You can't get a list like C<(1,2,3)> into being in scalar context, because the compiler knows the context at compile time. It would generate the scalar comma operator @@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ back. Look at the F<by-module/Crypt> and F<by-module/PGP> directories on your favorite CPAN mirror for a slew of potentially useful modules. -If using crypt() on an Unicode string (which potentially has +If using crypt() on a Unicode string (which potentially has characters with codepoints above 255), Perl tries to make sense of the situation by using only the low eight bits of the characters when calling crypt(). @@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ C<File::Glob> extension. See L<File::Glob> for details. =item gmtime EXPR -Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 8-element list +Converts a time as returned by the time function to an 8-element list with the time localized for the standard Greenwich time zone. Typically used as follows: @@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ C<redo> work. =item lc -Returns an lowercased version of EXPR. This is the internal function +Returns a lowercased version of EXPR. This is the internal function implementing the C<\L> escape in double-quoted strings. Respects current LC_CTYPE locale if C<use locale> in force. See L<perllocale> and L<perlunicode> for more details about locale and Unicode support. @@ -3925,7 +3925,7 @@ may vary from one execution to the next (see C<wantarray>). If no EXPR is given, returns an empty list in list context, the undefined value in scalar context, and (of course) nothing at all in a void context. -(Note that in the absence of a explicit C<return>, a subroutine, eval, +(Note that in the absence of an explicit C<return>, a subroutine, eval, or do FILE will automatically return the value of the last expression evaluated.) |