Re-attempt to clear the hash in S_hfreeentries if anything adds to it.

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

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 5589ce2..dbc82ec 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -411,12 +411,9 @@ for that.  (Mnemonic: when you want your pipes to be piping hot.)
 
 =item $,
 
-The output field separator for the print operator.  Ordinarily the
-print operator simply prints out its arguments without further
-adornment.  To get behavior more like B<awk>, set this variable as
-you would set B<awk>'s OFS variable to specify what is printed
-between fields.  (Mnemonic: what is printed when there is a "," in
-your print statement.)
+The output field separator for the print operator.  If defined, this
+value is printed between each of print's arguments.  Default is C<undef>.
+(Mnemonic: what is printed when there is a "," in your print statement.)
 
 =item IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR
 
@@ -426,14 +423,10 @@ your print statement.)
 
 =item $\
 
-The output record separator for the print operator.  Ordinarily the
-print operator simply prints out its arguments as is, with no
-trailing newline or other end-of-record string added.  To get
-behavior more like B<awk>, set this variable as you would set
-B<awk>'s ORS variable to specify what is printed at the end of the
-print.  (Mnemonic: you set C<$\> instead of adding "\n" at the
-end of the print.  Also, it's just like C<$/>, but it's what you
-get "back" from Perl.)
+The output record separator for the print operator.  If defined, this
+value is printed after the last of print's arguments.  Default is C<undef>.
+(Mnemonic: you set C<$\> instead of adding "\n" at the end of the print.
+Also, it's just like C<$/>, but it's what you get "back" from Perl.)
 
 =item $LIST_SEPARATOR
 
@@ -544,7 +537,7 @@ After a match against some variable $var:
 
 =item C<$2> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>
 
-=item C<$3> is the same as C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>
+=item C<$3> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>
 
 =back
 
@@ -854,7 +847,7 @@ changes.  Modifying the $0 is more useful as a way of indicating the
 current program state than it is for hiding the program you're
 running.  (Mnemonic: same as B<sh> and B<ksh>.)
 
-Note that there are platform specific limitations on the the maximum
+Note that there are platform specific limitations on the maximum
 length of C<$0>.  In the most extreme case it may be limited to the
 space occupied by the original C<$0>.
 
@@ -872,7 +865,7 @@ and version).  This is an operating system feature, Perl cannot help it.
 
 In multithreaded scripts Perl coordinates the threads so that any
 thread may modify its copy of the C<$0> and the change becomes visible
-to ps(1) (assuming the operating system plays along).  Note that the
+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.