On 3 Apr, Tels wrote:
: "work" (no "s" :)
:
: I think most of the longer-than-80-chars items can be shortened without
: loss of information.
Applied.
--- bleadperl/pod/perltrap.pod Sun Apr 3 10:47:49 2005
+++ patches/perltrap.pod Sun Apr 3 11:42:29 2005
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@
# perl4 prints: {a}
# perl5 prints: 2
-=item * Perl guesses on C<map>, C<grep> followed by C<{> whether C<{> starts
BLOCK or hash ref
+=item * Perl guesses on C<map>, C<grep> followed by C<{> if it starts BLOCK or
hash ref
When perl sees C<map {> (or C<grep {>), it has to guess whether the C<{>
starts a BLOCK or a hash reference. If it guesses wrong, it will report
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@
use Math::BigInt;
-=item * Assignment of return values from numeric equality tests doesn't works
+=item * Assignment of return values from numeric equality tests doesn't work
Assignment of return values from numeric equality tests
does not work in perl5 when the test evaluates to false (0).
@@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@
=over 5
-=item * Barewords that used to look like strings look like subroutine calls if
a subroutine by that name is defined
+=item * Barewords that used to look like strings look like subroutine calls
Barewords that used to look like strings to Perl will now look like subroutine
calls if a subroutine by that name is defined before the compiler sees them.
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@
Note: perl5 DOES NOT error on the terminating @ in $bar
-=item * Arbitrary expressions are evaluated inside braces that occur within
double quotes
+=item * Arbitrary expressions are evaluated inside braces within double quotes
Perl now sometimes evaluates arbitrary expressions inside braces that occur
within double quotes (usually when the opening brace is preceded by C<$>
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@
# perl4 prints: this is XXXx (XXX is the current pid)
# perl5 prints: this is a reference
-=item * Creation of hashes on the fly with C<eval "EXPR"> requires protection
of C<$>'s or both curlies
+=item * Creation of hashes on the fly with C<eval "EXPR"> requires protection
Creation of hashes on the fly with C<eval "EXPR"> now requires either both
C<$>'s to be protected in the specification of the hash name, or both curlies
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@
=over 5
-=item * Perl5 must have been linked with the same dbm/ndbm as the default for
C<dbmopen()> to function properly without C<tie>'ing
+=item * Perl5 must have been linked with same dbm/ndbm as the default for
C<dbmopen()>
Existing dbm databases created under perl4 (or any other dbm/ndbm tool)
may cause the same script, run under perl5, to fail. The build of perl5
@@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@
# perl5 prints: ok (IFF linked with -ldbm or -lndbm)
-=item * DBM exceeding the limit on the key/value size will cause perl5 to exit
immediately
+=item * DBM exceeding limit on the key/value size will cause perl5 to exit
immediately
Existing dbm databases created under perl4 (or any other dbm/ndbm tool)
may cause the same script, run under perl5, to fail. The error generated
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Steven Schubiger
