A mechanism for inlineable OP equivalents of XSUBs is a TODO.

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

diff --git a/pod/perlglossary.pod b/pod/perlglossary.pod
index 69692b3..b44fcd4 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlglossary.pod
+++ b/pod/perlglossary.pod
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (a 7-bit
 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
 
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ enclose" (like these parentheses are doing).
 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 maintainance
+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
@@ -1457,6 +1457,9 @@ invocant between the method and its arguments:
   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
@@ -1592,7 +1595,7 @@ hold, not to be confused with an L</NV>.
 
 "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
@@ -3220,7 +3223,7 @@ change their meanings.)
 =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