M. J. T. Guy [Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:14:50 +0000 (13:14 +0100)]
Subject: [PATCH] pod for scalar ..
Message-Id: <E0yqyN8-0006gv-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1285
appended to it, which doesn't affect its numeric value, but gives you
something to search for if you want to exclude the endpoint. You can
exclude the beginning point by waiting for the sequence number to be
-greater than 1. If either operand of scalar ".." is a numeric literal,
+greater than 1. If either operand of scalar ".." is a constant expression,
that operand is implicitly compared to the C<$.> variable, the current
line number. Examples: