doc patches from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

	Date: 14 Jul 1998 16:18:31 +0200
	Message-ID: <m33ec4cy88.fsf@furu.g.aas.no>
	Subject: [PATCH] substr/splice changes for perldelta.pod
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	Date: 14 Jul 1998 20:31:27 +0200
	Message-ID: <m3hg0kqo74.fsf@furu.g.aas.no>
	Subject: [PATCH] Duplicate description of use integer %

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1494

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index d1f0261..e271e7d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -266,6 +266,17 @@ See L<Tie::Array>.
 Several missing hooks have been added.  There is also a new base class for
 TIEARRAY implementations.  See L<Tie::Array>.
 
+=head2 4th argument to substr
+
+substr() can now both return and replace in one operation.  The optional
+4th argument is the replacement string.  See L<perlfunc/substr>.
+
+=head2 Negative LENGTH argument to splice
+
+Splice() with a negative LENGTH argument now work similar to what the
+LENGTH did for substr().  Previously a negative LENGTH was treated as
+0.  See L<perlfunc/splice>.
+
 
 =head1 Supported Platforms
 

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index d9cfccf..07ff51a 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -187,10 +187,7 @@ operands C<$a> and C<$b>: If C<$b> is positive, then C<$a % $b> is
 C<$a> minus the largest multiple of C<$b> that is not greater than
 C<$a>.  If C<$b> is negative, then C<$a % $b> is C<$a> minus the
 smallest multiple of C<$b> that is not less than C<$a> (i.e. the
-result will be less than or equal to zero).  If C<use integer> is
-in effect, the native hardware will be used instead of this rule,
-which may be construed a bug that will be fixed at some point.
-
+result will be less than or equal to zero). 
 Note than when C<use integer> is in scope, "%" give you direct access
 to the modulus operator as implemented by your C compiler.  This
 operator is not as well defined for negative operands, but it will