X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperltie.pod;h=cae0a15a5491a65bf96f8809fb5577910baae85b;hb=2d259d9294e79c03b1a69d3eaac3d6e5647468d7;hp=398c3a0d2969d1d8a923150346ab5cc5ba61e46f;hpb=1d603a678689f1e74cf73914a432b2a8d38be470;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perltie.pod b/pod/perltie.pod index 398c3a0..cae0a15 100644 --- a/pod/perltie.pod +++ b/pod/perltie.pod @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Now you can. The tie() function binds a variable to a class (package) that will provide the implementation for access methods for that variable. Once this magic has been performed, accessing a tied variable automatically triggers -method calls in the proper class. All of the complexity of the class is +method calls in the proper class. The complexity of the class is hidden behind magic methods calls. The method names are in ALL CAPS, which is a convention that Perl uses to indicate that they're called implicitly rather than explicitly--just like the BEGIN() and END() @@ -603,9 +603,9 @@ or have auxiliary state to clean up. Here's a very simple function: =back -Note that functions such as keys() and values() may return huge array -values when used on large objects, like DBM files. You may prefer to -use the each() function to iterate over such. Example: +Note that functions such as keys() and values() may return huge lists +when used on large objects, like DBM files. You may prefer to use the +each() function to iterate over such. Example: # print out history file offsets use NDBM_File;