small fix to perl58delta for MIME::QuotedPrint, from Jarkko

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

diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 0256f22..5e99fd3 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ The following standard quantifiers are recognized:
     {n,m}  Match at least n but not more than m times
 
 (If a curly bracket occurs in any other context, it is treated
-as a regular character.)  The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
+as a regular character.  In particular, the lower bound
+is not optional.)  The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
 modifier to C<{1,}>, and the "?" modifier to C<{0,1}>.  n and m are limited
 to integral values less than a preset limit defined when perl is built.
 This is usually 32766 on the most common platforms.  The actual limit can
@@ -884,7 +885,7 @@ multiple ways it might succeed, you need to understand backtracking to
 know which variety of success you will achieve.
 
 When using look-ahead assertions and negations, this can all get even
-tricker.  Imagine you'd like to find a sequence of non-digits not
+trickier.  Imagine you'd like to find a sequence of non-digits not
 followed by "123".  You might try to write that as
 
     $_ = "ABC123";