In perl.git, the branch yves/doc_hints has been updated
<http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/5f06e6dff4dfd8b38fdd7981b0a7b7da331d02b3?hp=1510475f3ddac95b1e3fa2f23b7836a212cb6d7d>
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commit 5f06e6dff4dfd8b38fdd7981b0a7b7da331d02b3
Author: Yves Orton <demer...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jun 18 01:53:36 2017 +0200
minor tweaks to the language
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Summary of changes:
pod/perlvar.pod | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 0857209b89..2fc8c25d5d 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -2162,8 +2162,8 @@ L<perlpragma>.
Similar to $^H this variable is part of the lexical state of the compilation
process, and changes made to it at compile-time are not visible later on
-at run-time. Instead you can access those values by accessing the 10th
-slot of the return of caller:
+at run-time. Instead you can access a flattened version of those values by
+accessing the 10th slot of the return of caller:
sub hints_hash { (caller(0))[10] }
@@ -2172,7 +2172,7 @@ such as code references, as well as simple
non-referential scalars. A
flattened copy of the values written into the hash is stored with the
code that was compiled while it was in effect, and is the copy
available via the C<caller()> mechanism. This copy preserves simple
-strings and numbers, but will not preserve more complex values
+strings and numbers, but will not properly preserve more complex values
like references.
When putting items into C<%^H>, in order to avoid conflicting with other
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