From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:19:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: pod tweaks X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40b7eeef93cf0584b0d7d850beb70a00e3135bc3;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git pod tweaks p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4699 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index f681859..3a48ef4 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_62) +perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_64) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and this one. =head2 Perl Source Incompatibilities -Beware that any new warnings that have been added or enhanced old -warnings are B considered incompatible changes. +Beware that any new warnings that have been added or old ones +that have been enhanced are B considered incompatible changes. Since all new warnings must be explicitly requested via the C<-w> switch or the C pragma, it is ultimately the programmer's @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ responsibility to ensure that warnings are enabled judiciously. =item STOP is a new keyword -In addition to C, C and C, subroutines named -C are now special. They are queued up for execution at the -end of compilation, and cannot be called directly. +In addition to C, C, C, C and C, +subroutines named C are now special. They are queued up for +execution at the end of compilation, and cannot be called directly. =item Treatment of list slices of undef has changed diff --git a/pod/perlfilter.pod b/pod/perlfilter.pod index f3ab788..a2eb1d8 100644 --- a/pod/perlfilter.pod +++ b/pod/perlfilter.pod @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Every source stream is associated with only one file. A source filter is a special kind of Perl module that intercepts and modifies a source stream before it reaches the parser. A source filter -changes the our diagram like this: +changes our diagram like this: file ----> filter ----> parser @@ -510,8 +510,7 @@ doesn't know Perl. It can be fooled quite easily: EOM Such things aside, you can see that a lot can be achieved with a modest -amount of code. I<[Note that Tuomas' toy VRML parser on p. 17 had the -same difficulty parsing VRML strings that look like comments. -Jon]> +amount of code. =head1 CONCLUSION diff --git a/pod/perlopentut.pod b/pod/perlopentut.pod index dbb3a0b..5d2be30 100644 --- a/pod/perlopentut.pod +++ b/pod/perlopentut.pod @@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ special way. If you open minus for reading, it really means to access the standard input. If you open minus for writing, it really means to access the standard output. -If minus can be used as the default input or default output? What happens +If minus can be used as the default input or default output, what happens if you open a pipe into or out of minus? What's the default command it -would run? The same script as you're current running! This is actually +would run? The same script as you're currently running! This is actually a stealth C hidden inside an C call. See L for details.