[win32] various tweaks to makefiles

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

diff --git a/pod/perltoot.pod b/pod/perltoot.pod
index 0c5b418..3a35c05 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltoot.pod
+++ b/pod/perltoot.pod
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ the same name as the class as the constructor.
 =head2 Object Representation
 
 By far the most common mechanism used in Perl to represent a Pascal
-record, a C struct, or a C++ class an anonymous hash.  That's because a
+record, a C struct, or a C++ class is an anonymous hash.  That's because a
 hash has an arbitrary number of data fields, each conveniently accessed by
 an arbitrary name of your own devising.
 
@@ -267,6 +267,9 @@ Because while a constructor is explicitly called, a destructor is not.
 Destruction happens automatically via Perl's garbage collection (GC)
 system, which is a quick but somewhat lazy reference-based GC system.
 To know what to call, Perl insists that the destructor be named DESTROY.
+Perl's notion of the right time to call a destructor is not well-defined
+currently, which is why your destructors should not rely on when they are
+called.
 
 Why is DESTROY in all caps?  Perl on occasion uses purely uppercase
 function names as a convention to indicate that the function will
@@ -796,7 +799,7 @@ base class.  If the original base class has been designed properly,
 then the new derived class can be used as a drop-in replacement for the
 old one.  This means you should be able to write a program like this:
 
-    use Employee
+    use Employee;
     my $empl = Employee->new();
     $empl->name("Jason");
     $empl->age(23);