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
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
=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