If the build fails under that shell, try building again with the cmd
shell.
-The nmake Makefile also has known incompatibilites with the
+The nmake Makefile also has known incompatibilities with the
"command.com" shell that comes with Windows 9x. You will need to
use dmake and makefile.mk to build under Windows 9x.
}
Notice how this (unprototyped) function doesn't care whether it was
-passed real scalars or arrays. Perl sees all arugments as one big,
+passed real scalars or arrays. Perl sees all arguments as one big,
long, flat parameter list in C<@_>. This is one area where
Perl's simple argument-passing style shines. The C<upcase()>
function would work perfectly well without changing the C<upcase()>
See L<perlref/"Function Templates"> for more about references and closures.
See L<perlxs> if you'd like to learn about calling C subroutines from Perl.
-See L<perlembed> if you'd like to learn about calling PErl subroutines from C.
+See L<perlembed> if you'd like to learn about calling Perl subroutines from C.
See L<perlmod> to learn about bundling up your functions in separate files.
See L<perlmodlib> to learn what library modules come standard on your system.
See L<perltoot> to learn how to make object method calls.
refers to the innermost enclosing loop. This may include dynamically
looking back your call-stack at run time to find the LABEL. Such
desperate behavior triggers a warning if you use the C<use warnings>
-praga or the B<-w> flag.
+pragma or the B<-w> flag.
Unlike a C<foreach> statement, a C<while> statement never implicitly
localises any variables.
Or if you are certainly that all the C<&&> clauses are true, you can use
something like this, which "switches" on the value of the
-C<HTTP_USER_AGENT> envariable.
+C<HTTP_USER_AGENT> environment variable.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# pick out jargon file page based on browser
find it useful to synchronize access to subroutines. You may be
accessing a singular machine resource (perhaps a vector processor), or
find it easier to serialize calls to a particular subroutine than to
-have a set of locks and sempahores.
+have a set of locks and semaphores.
One of the additions to Perl 5.005 is subroutine attributes. The
Thread package uses these to provide several flavors of
0-201-52739-1.
Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
-1995, ISBN 0-13-143934-0 (great textbook).
+1995, ISBN 0-13-219908-4 (great textbook).
Silberschatz, Abraham, and Peter B. Galvin. Operating System Concepts,
4th ed. Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-201-59292-4
I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?, Where can I learn about
object-oriented Perl programming?, Where can I learn about linking C with
Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp], I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't
-embed perl inmy C program, what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my
-script, I got this message. What does itmean?, What's MakeMaker?,
+embed perl in my C program, what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my
+script, I got this message. What does it mean?, What's MakeMaker?,
L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation, Why am I getting long decimals (eg,
19.9499999999999) instead of the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?,
Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?, Does Perl have a round()
This value may or may not be accurate, but it certainly is
eye-catching. For some things perl5 is faster than perl4, but often
-the reliability and extensability have come at a cost of speed. The
+the reliability and extensibility have come at a cost of speed. The
benchmark suite that Gisle released earlier has been hailed as both a
fantastic solution and as a source of entirely meaningless figures.
Do we need to test "real applications"? Can you do so? Anyone have
Yeah, I hope to implement it someday too. The points that were
raised in TPC2 were all to do with calling DESTROY() methods, but
-I think we can accomodate that by extending bless() to stash
+I think we can accommodate that by extending bless() to stash
extra information for objects so we track their lifetime accurately
for those that want their DESTROY() to be predictable (this will be
a speed hit, naturally, and will therefore be optional, naturally. :)
=head2 The PREINIT: Keyword
The PREINIT: keyword allows extra variables to be declared immediately
-before or after the declartions of the parameters from the INPUT: section
+before or after the declarations of the parameters from the INPUT: section
are emitted.
If a variable is declared inside a CODE: section it will follow any typemap
In general, it's not a good idea to write extensions that modify their input
parameters, as in Example 3. Instead, you should probably return multiple
values in an array and let the caller handle them (we'll do this in a later
-example). However, in order to better accomodate calling pre-existing C
+example). However, in order to better accommodate calling pre-existing C
routines, which often do modify their input parameters, this behavior is
tolerated.
as a command procedure.
If LIST consists of the empty string, C<system> spawns an
-interactive DCL subprocess, in the same fashion as typiing
+interactive DCL subprocess, in the same fashion as typing
B<SPAWN> at the DCL prompt.
Perl waits for the subprocess to complete before continuing
whether L<times> keeps track of subprocesses separately. Note
especially that the VAXCRTL (at least) keeps track only of
subprocesses spawned using L<fork> and L<exec>; it will not
-accumulate the times of suprocesses spawned via pipes, L<system>,
+accumulate the times of subprocesses spawned via pipes, L<system>,
or backticks.
=item unlink LIST
The following VMS-specific information applies to the indicated
"special" Perl variables, in addition to the general information
-in L<perlvar>. Where there is a conflict, this infrmation
+in L<perlvar>. Where there is a conflict, this information
takes precedence.
=over 4