Regen perlapi, regen toc.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldiag.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 6c6655c..34be258 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ line.
 
 =item Can't exec "%s": %s
 
-(W exec) An system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the
+(W exec) A system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the
 named program for the indicated reason.  Typical reasons include: the
 permissions were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in
 C<$ENV{PATH}>, the executable in question was compiled for another
@@ -1629,11 +1629,11 @@ two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports that).
 
 =item Illegal octal digit %s
 
-(F) You used an 8 or 9 in a octal number.
+(F) You used an 8 or 9 in an octal number.
 
 =item Illegal octal digit %s ignored
 
-(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number.
+(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in an octal number.
 Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
 
 =item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s
@@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ L<perlfunc/listen>.
 
 =item lstat() on filehandle %s
 
-(W io) You tried to do a lstat on a filehandle.  What did you mean
+(W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle.  What did you mean
 by that?  lstat() makes sense only on filenames.  (Perl did a fstat()
 instead on the filehandle.)
 
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ the result of the value of the environment variable PERLIO.
 =item perlio: invalid separator character %s in attribute list
 
 (S) When pushing layers onto the Perl I/O system, something other than a
-colon or whitespace was seen between the elements of an layer list.
+colon or whitespace was seen between the elements of a layer list.
 If the previous attribute had a parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that
 list was terminated too soon.
 
@@ -2711,6 +2711,10 @@ value of the environment variable PERLIO.
 process which isn't a subprocess of the current process.  While this is
 fine from VMS' perspective, it's probably not what you intended.
 
+=item P must have an explicit size
+
+(F) The unpack format P must have an explicit size, not "*".
+
 =item POSIX syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes in regex;
 
 marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
@@ -3150,8 +3154,8 @@ account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables
 location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less.
 Please see the following for more information:
 
-       http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
-       http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
+       http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
+       http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
        ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq
        http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
        http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
@@ -3284,13 +3288,13 @@ L<perlop/"Quote and Quote-like Operators">.
 
 =item Substitution pattern not terminated
 
-(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a s/// or s{}{}
+(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of an s/// or s{}{}
 construct.  Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.
 Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error.
 
 =item Substitution replacement not terminated
 
-(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a s/// or s{}{}
+(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of an s/// or s{}{}
 construct.  Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.
 Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error.
 
@@ -3844,6 +3848,14 @@ about.
 
 (W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments.   That isn't very useful.
 
+=item Useless use of sort in scalar context
+
+(W void) You used sort in scalar context, as in :
+
+    my $x = sort @y;
+
+This is not very useful, and perl currently optimizes this away.
+
 =item Useless use of %s with no values
 
 (W syntax) You used the push() or unshift() function with no arguments