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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/pod/perl5004delta.pod b/contrib/perl5/pod/perl5004delta.pod index 323830b..85a8f96 100644 --- a/contrib/perl5/pod/perl5004delta.pod +++ b/contrib/perl5/pod/perl5004delta.pod @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ your scripts. Before Perl 5.004, C<AUTOLOAD> functions were looked up as methods (using the C<@ISA> hierarchy), even when the function to be autoloaded was called as a plain function (e.g. C<Foo::bar()>), not a method -(e.g. C<Foo-E<gt>bar()> or C<$obj-E<gt>bar()>). +(e.g. C<< Foo->bar() >> or C<< $obj->bar() >>). Perl 5.005 will use method lookup only for methods' C<AUTOLOAD>s. However, there is a significant base of existing code that may be using @@ -266,11 +266,11 @@ A subroutine reference may now be suffixed with an arrow and a (possibly empty) parameter list. This syntax denotes a call of the referenced subroutine, with the given parameters (if any). -This new syntax follows the pattern of S<C<$hashref-E<gt>{FOO}>> and -S<C<$aryref-E<gt>[$foo]>>: You may now write S<C<&$subref($foo)>> as -S<C<$subref-E<gt>($foo)>>. All of these arrow terms may be chained; -thus, S<C<&{$table-E<gt>{FOO}}($bar)>> may now be written -S<C<$table-E<gt>{FOO}-E<gt>($bar)>>. +This new syntax follows the pattern of S<C<< $hashref->{FOO} >>> and +S<C<< $aryref->[$foo] >>>: You may now write S<C<&$subref($foo)>> as +S<C<< $subref->($foo) >>>. All these arrow terms may be chained; +thus, S<C<< &{$table->{FOO}}($bar) >>> may now be written +S<C<< $table->{FOO}->($bar) >>>. =back @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ details on how to get started with building this port. There is also support for building perl under the Cygwin32 environment. Cygwin32 is a set of GNU tools that make it possible to compile and run -many UNIX programs under Windows NT by providing a mostly UNIX-like +many Unix programs under Windows NT by providing a mostly Unix-like interface for compilation and execution. See F<README.cygwin32> in the perl distribution for more details on this port and how to obtain the Cygwin32 toolkit. @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ requested with the ":flock" tag (e.g. C<use Fcntl ':flock'>). =head2 IO -The IO module provides a simple mechanism to load all of the IO modules at one +The IO module provides a simple mechanism to load all the IO modules at one go. Currently this includes: IO::Handle @@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ likely to eliminate these arbitrary limitations. (F) A carriage return character was found in the input. This is an error, and not a warning, because carriage return characters can break -multi-line strings, including here documents (e.g., C<print E<lt>E<lt>EOF;>). +multi-line strings, including here documents (e.g., C<print <<EOF;>). =item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s @@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest octal literal is =item internal error: glob failed (P) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for C<glob> -and C<E<lt>*.cE<gt>>. This may mean that your csh (C shell) is +and C<< <*.c> >>. This may mean that your csh (C shell) is broken. If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables in config.sh: If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it were csh (e.g. C<full_csh='/usr/bin/tcsh'>); otherwise, make them all |
