Change 13312 by jhi@alpha on 2001/11/27 13:36:44
Subject: [PATCH] More perldelta.pod nits
From: Simon Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:28:36 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#262 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#262 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod.~1~ Tue Nov 27 06:45:06 2001
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Tue Nov 27 06:45:06 2001
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
=head2 64-bit platforms and malloc
-If your pointers are 64 bits wide, the Perl malloc is no more being
+If your pointers are 64 bits wide, the Perl malloc is no longer being
used because it does not work well with 8-byte pointers. Also,
usually the system mallocs on such platforms are much better optimized
for such large memory models than the Perl malloc. Some memory-hungry
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
=head2 REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
-A reference to a reference now stringify as "REF(0x81485ec)" instead
+A reference to a reference now stringifies as "REF(0x81485ec)" instead
of "SCALAR(0x81485ec)" in order to be more consistent with the return
value of ref().
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
=item *
-The C<package;> syntax (C<package> without an argument has been
+The C<package;> syntax (C<package> without an argument) has been
deprecated. Its semantics were never that clear and its
implementation even less so. If you have used that feature to
disallow all but fully qualified variables, C<use strict;> instead.
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
Perl now tries internally to use integer values in numeric conversions
and basic arithmetics (+ - * /) if the arguments are integers, and
tries also to keep the results stored internally as integers.
-This change leads into often slightly faster and always less lossy
+This change leads to often slightly faster and always less lossy
arithmetics. (Previously Perl always preferred floating point numbers
in its math.)
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
necessary to use it with PerlIO::Via as in :
use MIME::QuotedPrint;
- open($fh,">Via(MIME::QuotedPrint)",$path)
+ open($fh,">Via(MIME::QuotedPrint)",$path);
See L<MIME::QuotedPrint>.
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@
code), from Nick Ing-Simmons.
use MIME::QuotedPrint;
- open($fh,">Via(MIME::QuotedPrint)",$path)
+ open($fh,">Via(MIME::QuotedPrint)",$path);
This will automatically convert everything output to C<$fh>
to Quoted-Printable. See L<PerlIO::Via>.
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@
=item *
-AutoLoader can now be disabled with C<no AutoLoader;>,
+AutoLoader can now be disabled with C<no AutoLoader;>.
=item *
@@ -1011,9 +1011,9 @@
=item *
perlebcdic contains considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms.
-Note that unfortunately EBCDIC platforms that used to supported back in
-Perl 5.005 are still unsupported by Perl 5.7.0; the plan, however, is to
-bring them back to the fold.
+Note that unfortunately EBCDIC platforms that used to be supported back
+in Perl 5.005 are still unsupported by Perl 5.8.0; the plan, however, is
+to bring them back to the fold.
=item *
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@
=item *
-perlpodstyle is a more formal specification of the pod format,
+perlpodspec is a more formal specification of the pod format,
mainly of interest for writers of pod applications, not to
people writing in pod.
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@
All BSDs
-Setting C<$0> now works (as much as possible; see perlvar for details).
+Setting C<$0> now works (as much as possible; see L<perlvar> for details).
=item *
@@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@
=head2 Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
One cannot call Perl using the C<volume:> syntax, that is, C<perl -v>
-works, but for example C<bin:perl -v> doesn't. The exact reason is
+works, but for example C<bin:perl -v> doesn't. The exact reason isn't
known but the current suspect is the F<ixemul> library.
=head2 lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
@@ -2182,8 +2182,8 @@
=head2 VMS
-Rather many tests are failing in VMS but that actually more tests
-succeed in VMS than they used to, it's just that there are many,
+Rather a lot of tests are failing in VMS, but actually more tests
+succeed in VMS than they used to; it's just that there are many,
many more tests than there used to be.
Here are the known failures from some compiler/platform combinations.
End of Patch.
