It could be possible for the case-insensitive

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

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index e61e8ed..0dcb2ac 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ BLOCK).  (Mnemonic: like & in some editors.)  This variable is read-only
 and dynamically scoped to the current BLOCK.
 
 The use of this variable anywhere in a program imposes a considerable
-performance penalty on all regular expression matches.  See L<BUGS>.
+performance penalty on all regular expression matches.  See L</BUGS>.
 
 =item $PREMATCH
 
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ enclosed by the current BLOCK).  (Mnemonic: C<`> often precedes a quoted
 string.)  This variable is read-only.
 
 The use of this variable anywhere in a program imposes a considerable
-performance penalty on all regular expression matches.  See L<BUGS>.
+performance penalty on all regular expression matches.  See L</BUGS>.
 
 =item $POSTMATCH
 
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ string.)  Example:
 This variable is read-only and dynamically scoped to the current BLOCK.
 
 The use of this variable anywhere in a program imposes a considerable
-performance penalty on all regular expression matches.  See L<BUGS>.
+performance penalty on all regular expression matches.  See L</BUGS>.
 
 =item $LAST_PAREN_MATCH
 
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ with the rightmost closing parenthesis) of the last successful search
 pattern.  (Mnemonic: the (possibly) Nested parenthesis that most
 recently closed.)
 
-This is primarly used inside C<(?{...})> blocks for examining text
+This is primarily used inside C<(?{...})> blocks for examining text
 recently matched. For example, to effectively capture text to a variable
 (in addition to C<$1>, C<$2>, etc.), replace C<(...)> with
 
@@ -654,6 +654,11 @@ status; see L<perlvms/$?> for details.
 
 Also see L<Error Indicators>.
 
+=item ${^ENCODING}
+
+The encoding used to interpret native eight-bit encodings to Unicode,
+see L<encode>.  An opaque C<Encode::XS> object.
+
 =item $OS_ERROR
 
 =item $ERRNO
@@ -844,10 +849,9 @@ of perl in the right bracket?)  Example:
 See also the documentation of C<use VERSION> and C<require VERSION>
 for a convenient way to fail if the running Perl interpreter is too old.
 
-The use of this variable is deprecated.  The floating point representation
-can sometimes lead to inaccurate numeric comparisons.  See C<$^V> for a
-more modern representation of the Perl version that allows accurate string
-comparisons.
+The floating point representation can sometimes lead to inaccurate
+numeric comparisons.  See C<$^V> for a more modern representation of
+the Perl version that allows accurate string comparisons.
 
 =item $COMPILING
 
@@ -961,6 +965,12 @@ built, as determined during the configuration process.  The value
 is identical to C<$Config{'osname'}>.  See also L<Config> and the 
 B<-V> command-line switch documented in L<perlrun>.
 
+=item ${^OPEN}
+
+An internal variable used by PerlIO.  A string in two parts, separated
+by a C<\0> byte, the first part is the input disciplines, the second
+part is the output disciplines.
+
 =item $PERLDB
 
 =item $^P
@@ -1039,6 +1049,11 @@ The time at which the program began running, in seconds since the
 epoch (beginning of 1970).  The values returned by the B<-M>, B<-A>,
 and B<-C> filetests are based on this value.
 
+=item ${^TAINT}
+
+Reflects if taint mode is on or off (i.e. if the program was run with
+B<-T> or not).  True for on, false for off.
+
 =item $PERL_VERSION
 
 =item $^V
@@ -1158,7 +1173,9 @@ already been included.
 
 If the file was loaded via a hook (e.g. a subroutine reference, see
 L<perlfunc/require> for a description of these hooks), this hook is
-inserted into %INC in place of a filename.
+by default inserted into %INC in place of a filename.  Note, however,
+that the hook may have set the %INC entry by itself to provide some more
+specific info.
 
 =item %ENV
 
@@ -1370,7 +1387,7 @@ expression matches in a program, regardless of whether they occur
 in the scope of C<use English>.  For that reason, saying C<use
 English> in libraries is strongly discouraged.  See the
 Devel::SawAmpersand module documentation from CPAN
-(http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Devel/)
+(http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Devel/)
 for more information.
 
 Having to even think about the C<$^S> variable in your exception