Remove Mac OS classic instructions from perlrun

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

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 68573e3..7c61a05 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ See L</@-> for a replacement.
 =item ${^MATCH}
 X<${^MATCH}>
 
-This is similar to C<$&> (C<$POSTMATCH>) except that it does not incur the
+This is similar to C<$&> (C<$MATCH>) except that it does not incur the
 performance penalty associated with that variable, and is only guaranteed
 to return a defined value when the pattern was compiled or executed with
 the C</p> modifier.
@@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ past where $2 ends, and so on.  You can use C<$#+> to determine
 how many subgroups were in the last successful match.  See the
 examples given for the C<@-> variable.
 
+=item %LAST_PAREN_MATCH
+
 =item %+
 X<%+>
 
@@ -1021,6 +1023,9 @@ to ps(1) (assuming the operating system plays along).  Note that
 the view of C<$0> the other threads have will not change since they
 have their own copies of it.
 
+If the program has been given to perl via the switches C<-e> or C<-E>,
+C<$0> will contain the string C<"-e">.
+
 =item $[
 X<$[>
 
@@ -1032,8 +1037,9 @@ subscripting and when evaluating the index() and substr() functions.
 
 As of release 5 of Perl, assignment to C<$[> is treated as a compiler
 directive, and cannot influence the behavior of any other file.
-(That's why you can only assign compile-time constants to it.)
-Its use is highly discouraged.
+(That's why you can only assign compile-time constants to it.)  Its
+use is deprecated, and will trigger a warning (if the deprecation
+L<warnings> category is enabled.  You did C<use warnings>, right?)
 
 Note that, unlike other compile-time directives (such as L<strict>),
 assignment to C<$[> can be seen from outer lexical scopes in the same file.