=item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'
(P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importing stubs.
-Stubs should never be implicitely created, but explicit calls to C<can>
+Stubs should never be implicitly created, but explicit calls to C<can>
may break this.
=item Too late for "B<-T>" option
The license included in much of the Perl documentation has changed.
Most of the Perl documentation was previously under the implicit GNU
General Public License or the Artistic License (at the user's choice).
-Now much of the documentation unambigously states the terms under which
+Now much of the documentation unambiguously states the terms under which
it may be distributed. Those terms are in general much less restrictive
than the GNU GPL. See L<perl> and the individual perl man pages listed
therein.
=head2 E<lt>E<gt> now reads in records
-If C<$/> is a referenence to an integer, or a scalar that holds an integer,
+If C<$/> is a reference to an integer, or a scalar that holds an integer,
E<lt>E<gt> will read in records instead of lines. For more info, see
L<perlvar/$/>.
=head2 Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
As we've already shown, C<perl_call_sv> can be used to invoke an
-anonymous subroutine. However, our example showed how Perl script
-invoking an XSUB to preform this operation. Let's see how it can be
+anonymous subroutine. However, our example showed a Perl script
+invoking an XSUB to perform this operation. Let's see how it can be
done inside our C code:
...
Perl is I<very> frivolous with memory. There is a saying that to
estimate memory usage of Perl, assume a reasonable algorithm of
-allocation, and multiply your estimages by 10. This is not absolutely
+allocation, and multiply your estimates by 10. This is not absolutely
true, but may give you a good grasp of what happens.
Say, an integer cannot take less than 20 bytes of memory, a float
Total sbrk(): 215040/47:145. Odd ends: pad+heads+chain+tail: 0+2192+0+6144.
It is possible to ask for such a statistic at arbitrary moment by
-usind Devel::Peek::mstats() (module Devel::Peek is available on CPAN).
+using Devel::Peek::mstats() (module Devel::Peek is available on CPAN).
Here is the explanation of different parts of the format:
buckets "above".
Say, with the above example the memory footprints are (with current
-algorith)
+algorithm)
free: 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192
4 12 24 48 80
It also creates C arrays to keep data for the stash (this is one HV,
but it grows, thus there are 4 big allocations: the big chunks are not
-freeed, but are kept as additional arenas for C<SV> allocations).
+freed, but are kept as additional arenas for C<SV> allocations).
=item C<054>
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accessing the same private variable, but another file with the same
package couldn't get to it.
-See L<perlsub/"Peristent Private Variables"> for details.
+See L<perlsub/"Persistent Private Variables"> for details.
=head2 What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping? Between local() and my()?
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the PERLLIB environment variable
the PERL5LIB environment variable
- the perl -Idir commpand line flag
+ the perl -Idir command line flag
the use lib pragma, as in
use lib "$ENV{HOME}/myown_perllib";
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$string =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge;
Encoding is a bit harder, because you can't just blindly change
-all the non-alphanumunder character (C<\W>) into their hex escapes.
+all the non-alphanumeric characters (C<\W>) into their hex escapes.
It's important that characters with special meaning like C</> and C<?>
I<not> be translated. Probably the easiest way to get this right is
to avoid reinventing the wheel and just use the URI::Escape module,
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its complete documentation whether printed or otherwise, this work
-may be distributed only under the terms of Perl's Artistic License.
+may be distributed only under the terms of Perl's Artistic Licence.
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of that package require that special arrangements be made with
copyright holder.
($retval = ioctl(...)) || ($retval = -1);
printf "System returned %d\n", $retval;
-The special string "C<0> but true" is excempt from B<-w> complaints
+The special string "C<0> but true" is exempt from B<-w> complaints
about improper numeric conversions.
=item join EXPR,LIST
either a pointer to a variable argument list or the address and length of
an array of SVs. The last argument points to a boolean; on return, if that
boolean is true, then locale-specific information has been used to format
-the string, and the string's contents are therefore untrustworty (see
+the string, and the string's contents are therefore untrustworthy (see
L<perlsec>). This pointer may be NULL if that information is not
important. Note that this function requires you to specify the length of
the format.
=item gv_fetchmethod_autoload
Returns the glob which contains the subroutine to call to invoke the
-method on the C<stash>. In fact in the presense of autoloading this may
+method on the C<stash>. In fact in the presence of autoloading this may
be the glob for "AUTOLOAD". In this case the corresponding variable
$AUTOLOAD is already setup.
$ref_to_LoL = [
[ "fred", "barney", "pebbles", "bambam", "dino", ],
[ "homer", "bart", "marge", "maggie", ],
- [ "george", "jane", "alroy", "judy", ],
+ [ "george", "jane", "elroy", "judy", ],
];
print $ref_to_LoL->[2][2];
# non-exported package globals go here
use vars qw(@more $stuff);
- # initalize package globals, first exported ones
+ # initialize package globals, first exported ones
$Var1 = '';
%Hashit = ();
such as in a signal handler or a Tk callback.
Using a closure as a function template allows us to generate many functions
-that act similarly. Suppopose you wanted functions named after the colors
+that act similarly. Suppose you wanted functions named after the colors
that generated HTML font changes for the various colors:
print "Be ", red("careful"), "with that ", green("light");
If a file named by an argument cannot be opened for some reason, Perl
warns you about it, and moves on to the next file. Note that the
-lines are printed automatically. An error occuring during printing is
+lines are printed automatically. An error occurring during printing is
treated as fatal. To suppress printing use the B<-n> switch. A B<-p>
overrides a B<-n> switch.
This does not work with object methods, however; all object methods have
to be in the symbol table of some package to be found.
-=head2 Peristent Private Variables
+=head2 Persistent Private Variables
Just because a lexical variable is lexically (also called statically)
scoped to its enclosing block, C<eval>, or C<do> FILE, this doesn't mean that
=item Private Variables via C<my()>
-=item Peristent Private Variables
+=item Persistent Private Variables
=item Temporary Values via local()
On VMS, record reads are done with the equivalent of C<sysread>, so it's
best not to mix record and non-record reads on the same file. (This is
likely not a problem, as any file you'd want to read in record mode is
-proably usable in line mode) Non-VMS systems perform normal I/O, so
+probably usable in line mode) Non-VMS systems perform normal I/O, so
it's safe to mix record and non-record reads of a file.
=item autoflush HANDLE EXPR
=back
-Note that some bits may be relevent at compile-time only, some at
+Note that some bits may be relevant at compile-time only, some at
run-time only. This is a new mechanism and the details may change.
=item $^R
parser. In such a case the parser may be in inconsistent state, so
any attempt to evaluate Perl code from such a handler will probably
result in a segfault. This means that calls which result/may-result
-in parsing Perl should be used with extreme causion, like this:
+in parsing Perl should be used with extreme caution, like this:
require Carp if defined $^S;
Carp::confess("Something wrong") if defined &Carp::confess;
Older versions of this document recommended to use C<void> return
value in such cases. It was discovered that this could lead to
-segfaults in cases when XSUB was I<truely> C<void>. This practice is
+segfaults in cases when XSUB was I<truly> C<void>. This practice is
now deprecated, and may be not supported at some future version. Use
the return value C<SV *> in such cases. (Currently C<xsubpp> contains
-some heuristic code which tries to disambiguate between "truely-void"
+some heuristic code which tries to disambiguate between "truly-void"
and "old-practice-declared-as-void" functions. Hence your code is at
mercy of this heuristics unless you use C<SV *> as return value.)
initialization begins with C<;> or C<+>, then it is output after
all of the input variables have been declared. The C<=> and C<;>
cases replace the initialization normally supplied from the typemap.
-For the C<+> case, the initialization from the typemap will preceed
+For the C<+> case, the initialization from the typemap will precede
the initialization code included after the C<+>. A global
-variable, C<%v>, is available for the truely rare case where
+variable, C<%v>, is available for the truly rare case where
information from one initialization is needed in another
initialization.