Author: larry Date: Tue Jan 1 00:22:25 2008 New Revision: 14476 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: Infelicities noticed by Limbic_Region++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Tue Jan 1 00:22:25 2008 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 5 Dec 2007 + Last Modified: 1 Jan 2008 Number: 2 - Version: 121 + Version: 122 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ =item * For all quoting constructs that use user-selected brackets, you can open -with multiple identical bracket characters, which must by closed by the +with multiple identical bracket characters, which must be closed by the same number of closing brackets. Counting of nested brackets applies only to pairs of brackets of the same length as the opening brackets: @@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ default to NaN, while integer types (including C<bit>) default to 0. The complex type defaults to NaN + NaN.i. A buf type of known size defaults to a sequence of 0 values. If any native type is explicitly -initialized to C<*> (the C<Whatever> type), it is left uninitialized. +initialized to C<*> (the C<Whatever> type), no initialization is attempted +and you'll get whatever was already there when the memory was allocated. If a buf type is initialized with a Unicode string value, the string is decomposed into Unicode codepoints, and each codepoint shoved into
