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commit 570dedd44da3a23aa548d78e168df662fd35fce8
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Feb 13 17:07:03 2011 -0800
perldiag: Suggest use re '/m' for $*
M pod/perldiag.pod
commit a58ac25e92f5a203cf2a2bbf7dff77aade544833
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Feb 13 16:57:27 2011 -0800
perldiag: reflow $* and $#
M pod/perldiag.pod
commit 34b6fd5ef2bb529de70ecade788d8dc58bc68afa
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Feb 13 14:52:14 2011 -0800
perldiag: more typos and grammar
M pod/perldiag.pod
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldiag.pod | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index cd4f975..2a464ec 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2325,34 +2325,36 @@ strange for a machine that supports C.
=item ioctl() on unopened %s
(W unopened) You tried ioctl() on a filehandle that was never opened.
-Check you control flow and number of arguments.
+Check your control flow and number of arguments.
=item IO layers (like '%s') unavailable
(F) Your Perl has not been configured to have PerlIO, and therefore
-you cannot use IO layers. To have PerlIO Perl must be configured
+you cannot use IO layers. To have PerlIO, Perl must be configured
with 'useperlio'.
=item IO::Socket::atmark not implemented on this architecture
(F) Your machine doesn't implement the sockatmark() functionality,
-neither as a system call or an ioctl call (SIOCATMARK).
+neither as a system call nor an ioctl call (SIOCATMARK).
=item $* is no longer supported
-(D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older perls,
has
-been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported. In previous versions of
perl the use of
-C<$*> enabled or disabled multi-line matching within a string.
+(D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older
+perls, has been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported. In
+previous versions of perl the use of C<$*> enabled or disabled multi-line
+matching within a string.
Instead of using C<$*> you should use the C</m> (and maybe C</s>) regexp
-modifiers. (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value then all
regular
-expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.)
+modifiers. You can enable C</m> for a lexical scope (even a whole file)
+with C<use re '/m'>. (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value
+then all regular expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.)
=item $# is no longer supported
-(D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$#>, deprecated in older perls,
has
-been removed as of 5.9.3 and is no longer supported. You should use the
-printf/sprintf functions instead.
+(D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$#>, deprecated in older
+perls, has been removed as of 5.9.3 and is no longer supported. You
+should use the printf/sprintf functions instead.
=item `%s' is not a code reference
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