From ac0367249e563330db9a9a04f778eae30defbab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brian d foy Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:19:25 +0100 Subject: * Em dash cleanup in pod/ I looked at all the instances of spaces around -- and in most cases converted the sentences to use more appropriate punctuation. In general, the -- in the perl docs seem to be there only to make really complicated and really long sentences. I didn't look at the closed em-dashes. They probably have the same sentence-complexity problem. I left some open em-dashes in place. Those are the ones used in lists. --- pod/perltoot.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'pod/perltoot.pod') diff --git a/pod/perltoot.pod b/pod/perltoot.pod index 5180306688..0d8648bdd5 100644 --- a/pod/perltoot.pod +++ b/pod/perltoot.pod @@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ to do that. There's a bit of package data used in the constructor, but the reference to this is stored on the object itself and all other methods access package data via that reference, so we should be ok. -What do we mean by the Person::new() function -- isn't that actually +What do we mean by the Person::new() function? Isn't that actually a method? Well, in principle, yes. A method is just a function that expects as its first argument a class name (package) or object (blessed reference). Person::new() is the function that both the -- cgit v1.2.1