Branch: refs/heads/pod-dollar-ab Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5 Commit: d96b4ed5954b4baf2632159a91b8c6a0f219b51d https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/d96b4ed5954b4baf2632159a91b8c6a0f219b51d Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org> Date: 2023-08-16 (Wed, 16 Aug 2023)
Changed paths: M pod/buildtoc M pod/perlcall.pod M pod/perldbmfilter.pod M pod/perldiag.pod M pod/perldsc.pod M pod/perlebcdic.pod M pod/perlembed.pod M pod/perlfunc.pod M pod/perlgit.pod M pod/perlhacktips.pod M pod/perlinterp.pod M pod/perlintro.pod M pod/perllocale.pod M pod/perlop.pod M pod/perlpodspec.pod M pod/perlre.pod M pod/perlrebackslash.pod M pod/perlrecharclass.pod M pod/perlref.pod M pod/perlsyn.pod M pod/perltie.pod M pod/perluniintro.pod Log Message: ----------- pod: eliminate references to `$a` and `$b` outside sort context This causes confusion for new users when they get told to not use those variables because of how they interact with sort and friends. This changes them to `$x` and `$y`, and also changes nearby variables to keep things consistent, such as `$c` -> `$z` and `@a` -> `@x`. I dind't touch `perlfilter.pod`, since that comes from the Filter dist, which is upstream CPAN.