perl 5.002gamma: [patch introduction and re-organisations]

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

diff --git a/pod/perlform.pod b/pod/perlform.pod
index 99e0746..cf0bc06 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlform.pod
+++ b/pod/perlform.pod
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ perlform - Perl formats
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 Perl has a mechanism to help you generate simple reports and charts.  To
-facilitate this, Perl helps you lay out your output page in your code in a
-fashion that's close to how it will look when it's printed.  It can keep
-track of things like how many lines on a page, what page you're, when to
+facilitate this, Perl helps you code up your output page 
+close to how it will look when it's printed.  It can keep
+track of things like how many lines on a page, what page you're on, when to
 print page headers, etc.  Keywords are borrowed from FORTRAN:
 format() to declare and write() to execute; see their entries in
 L<perlfunc>.  Fortunately, the layout is much more legible, more like
@@ -310,4 +310,6 @@ is to printf(), do this:
 
 Lexical variables (declared with "my") are not visible within a
 format unless the format is declared within the scope of the lexical
-variable.  (They weren't visiblie at all before version 5.001.)
+variable.  (They weren't visible at all before version 5.001.)  Furthermore,
+lexical aliases will not be compiled correctly: see
+L<perlfunc/my> for other issues.