From: padre@elte.hu <padre@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:05:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [perl #27567] [patch] a typo and a mistake in perltoot.pod
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[perl #27567] [patch] a typo and a mistake in perltoot.pod
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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22497
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diff --git a/pod/perltoot.pod b/pod/perltoot.pod
index 2497063..8d224dd 100644
--- a/pod/perltoot.pod
+++ b/pod/perltoot.pod
@@ -1131,9 +1131,9 @@ above, just add this to Person.pm:
 
     our $VERSION = '1.1';
 
-and then in Employee.pm could you can say
+and then in Employee.pm you can say
 
-    use Employee 1.1;
+    use Person 1.1;
 
 And it would make sure that you have at least that version number or
 higher available.   This is not the same as loading in that exact version
@@ -1497,10 +1497,10 @@ Here's a simple example of using it:
     struct 'Fred' => {
         one        => '$',
         many       => '@',
-        profession => Jobbie,  # calls Jobbie->new()
+        profession => 'Jobbie',  # does not call Jobbie->new()
     };
 
-    $ob = Fred->new;
+    $ob = Fred->new(profession => Jobbie->new());
     $ob->one("hmmmm");
 
     $ob->many(0, "here");
@@ -1514,6 +1514,10 @@ You can declare types in the struct to be basic Perl types, or
 user-defined types (classes).  User types will be initialized by calling
 that class's new() method.
 
+Take care that the C<Jobbie> object is not created automatically by the
+C<Fred> class's new() method, so you should specify a C<Jobbie> object
+when you create an instance of C<Fred>.
+
 Here's a real-world example of using struct generation.  Let's say you
 wanted to override Perl's idea of gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() so
 that they would return objects that acted like C structures.  We don't