X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlform.pod;h=cf0bc068f16781c12a4751d2dad82250e15261ba;hb=399f14a194513745fd160c0e4e8f6f7f718779cf;hp=c4bb78cfcde6aad0409ce50f184262d6c52558b4;hpb=4633a7c4bad06b471d9310620b7fe8ddd158cccd;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlform.pod b/pod/perlform.pod index c4bb78c..cf0bc06 100644 --- a/pod/perlform.pod +++ b/pod/perlform.pod @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ perlform - Perl formats =head1 DESCRIPTION Perl has a mechanism to help you generate simple reports and charts. To -facilitate this, Perl helps you lay out your output page in your code in a -fashion that's close to how it will look when it's printed. It can keep -track of things like how many lines on a page, what page you're, when to +facilitate this, Perl helps you code up your output page +close to how it will look when it's printed. It can keep +track of things like how many lines on a page, what page you're on, when to print page headers, etc. Keywords are borrowed from FORTRAN: format() to declare and write() to execute; see their entries in L. Fortunately, the layout is much more legible, more like @@ -310,5 +310,6 @@ is to printf(), do this: Lexical variables (declared with "my") are not visible within a format unless the format is declared within the scope of the lexical -variable. (They weren't visible at all before version 5.001.) See +variable. (They weren't visible at all before version 5.001.) Furthermore, +lexical aliases will not be compiled correctly: see L for other issues.