From: Robert Spier Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:22:15 +0000 (-0500) Subject: fwd: Re: [ID 20001105.011] Perl 5.6.0 documentation glitch X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aaa2bbb1892bb3fc5334c4dc71d8a416000854b4;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git fwd: Re: [ID 20001105.011] Perl 5.6.0 documentation glitch Message-ID: <14861.32839.491271.985797@rls.cx> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7648 --- diff --git a/Porting/Contract b/Porting/Contract index cc91af2..2b619fd 100644 --- a/Porting/Contract +++ b/Porting/Contract @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ community, mutual respect, trust, and good-faith cooperation. We recognize that the Perl core, defined as the software distributed with the heart of Perl itself, is a joint project on the part of all of us. ->From time to time, a script, module, or set of modules (hereafter referred +From time to time, a script, module, or set of modules (hereafter referred to simply as a "module") will prove so widely useful and/or so integral to the correct functioning of Perl itself that it should be distributed with Perl core. This should never be done without the author's explicit diff --git a/pod/perltoot.pod b/pod/perltoot.pod index e923673..594cb99 100644 --- a/pod/perltoot.pod +++ b/pod/perltoot.pod @@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@ as a class or object method is by usage only. You could accidentally call a class method (one expecting a string argument) on an object (one expecting a reference), or vice versa. -Z<>From the C++ perspective, all methods in Perl are virtual. +From the C++ perspective, all methods in Perl are virtual. This, by the way, is why they are never checked for function prototypes in the argument list as regular builtin and user-defined functions can be.