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diff --git a/pod/perltie.pod b/pod/perltie.pod
index b4c2baf..0323e32 100644
--- a/pod/perltie.pod
+++ b/pod/perltie.pod
@@ -900,12 +900,14 @@ C<syswrite> function.
 X<PRINT>
 
 This method will be triggered every time the tied handle is printed to
-with the C<print()> function.
-Beyond its self reference it also expects the list that was passed to
-the print function.
+with the C<print()> or C<say()> functions.  Beyond its self reference
+it also expects the list that was passed to the print function.
 
     sub PRINT { $r = shift; $$r++; print join($,,map(uc($_),@_)),$\ }
 
+C<say()> acts just like C<print()> except $\ will be localized to C<\n> so
+you need do nothing special to handle C<say()> in C<PRINT()>.
+
 =item PRINTF this, LIST
 X<PRINTF>
 
@@ -950,6 +952,19 @@ This method will be called when the C<getc> function is called.
 
     sub GETC { print "Don't GETC, Get Perl"; return "a"; }
 
+=item EOF this
+X<EOF>
+
+This method will be called when the C<eof> function is called.
+
+Starting with Perl 5.12, an additional integer parameter will be passed.  It
+will be zero if C<eof> is called without parameter; C<1> if C<eof> is given
+a filehandle as a parameter, e.g. C<eof(FH)>; and C<2> in the very special
+case that the tied filehandle is C<ARGV> and C<eof> is called with an empty
+parameter list, e.g. C<eof()>.
+
+    sub EOF { not length $stringbuf }
+
 =item CLOSE this
 X<CLOSE>
 
@@ -1010,7 +1025,7 @@ a scalar.
     sub TIESCALAR {
         my $class = shift;
         my $filename = shift;
-        my $handle = new IO::File "> $filename"
+        my $handle = IO::File->new( "> $filename" )
                          or die "Cannot open $filename: $!\n";
 
         print $handle "The Start\n";
@@ -1166,7 +1181,7 @@ tie methods for slice operations.
 You cannot easily tie a multilevel data structure (such as a hash of
 hashes) to a dbm file.  The first problem is that all but GDBM and
 Berkeley DB have size limitations, but beyond that, you also have problems
-with how references are to be represented on disk.  One experimental
+with how references are to be represented on disk.  One
 module that does attempt to address this need is DBM::Deep.  Check your
 nearest CPAN site as described in L<perlmodlib> for source code.  Note
 that despite its name, DBM::Deep does not use dbm.  Another earlier attempt