=item architecture
-The kind of compluter you're working on, where one "kind" of computer
+The kind of computer you're working on, where one "kind" of computer
means all those computers sharing a compatible machine language.
Since Perl programs are (typically) simple text files, not executable
images, a Perl program is much less sensitive to the architecture it's
character set adequate only for poorly representing English text).
Often used loosely to describe the lowest 128 values of the various
ISO-8859-X character sets, a bunch of mutually incompatible 8-bit
-codes best described as half ASCII. See also L</Unicode>.
+codes sometimes described as half ASCII. See also L</Unicode>.
=item assertion
=item autoincrement
-To add one to something automatically, hence the name of the the C<++>
+To add one to something automatically, hence the name of the C<++>
operator. To instead subtract one from something automatically is
known as an "autodecrement".
L</terminator>. "To delimit" really just means "to surround" or "to
enclose" (like these parentheses are doing).
+=item deprecated modules and features
+
+Deprecated modules and features are those which were part of a stable
+release, but later found to be subtly flawed, and which should be avoided.
+They are subject to removal and/or bug-incompatible reimplementation in
+the next major release (but they will be preserved through maintenance
+releases). Deprecation warnings are issued under B<-w> or C<use
+diagnostics>, and notices are found in L<perldelta>s, as well as various
+other PODs. Coding practices that misuse features, such as C<my $foo if
+0>, can also be deprecated.
+
=item dereference
A fancy computer science term meaning "to follow a L</reference> to
usage implies source code is included. If that is not the case, it
will be called a "binary-only" distribution.
+=item (to be) dropped modules
+
+When Perl 5 was first released (see L<perlhistory>), several modules were
+included, which have now fallen out of common use. It has been suggested
+that these modules should be removed, since the distribution became rather
+large, and the common criterion for new module additions is now limited to
+modules that help to build, test, and extend perl itself. Furthermore,
+the CPAN (which didn't exist at the time of Perl 5.0) can become the new
+home of dropped modules. Dropping modules is currently not an option, but
+further developments may clear the last barriers.
+
=item dweomer
An enchantment, illusion, phantasm, or jugglery. Said when Perl's
give $gollum "Fisssssh!";
give $gollum "Precious!";
+In modern Perl, calling methods this way is often considered bad practice and
+to be avoided.
+
=item indirect object slot
The syntactic position falling between a method call and its arguments
"Just Another Perl Hacker," a clever but cryptic bit of Perl code that
when executed, evaluates to that string. Often used to illustrate a
-particular Perl feature, and something of an ungoing Obfuscated Perl
+particular Perl feature, and something of an ongoing Obfuscated Perl
Contest seen in Usenix signatures.
=back
=item Unicode
A character set comprising all the major character sets of the world,
-more or less. See L<http://www.unicode.org>.
+more or less. See L<perlunicode> and L<http://www.unicode.org>.
=item Unix
Based on the Glossary of Programming Perl, Third Edition,
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant.
Copyright (c) 2000, 1996, 1991 O'Reilly Media, Inc.
-Used with permission.
+This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.