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authorDagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>2015-05-22 00:29:46 +0100
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2015-05-21 17:40:41 -0600
commitdfd03a6ac1d5f203eddfe08b5e4b5ab70ccb1e3a (patch)
tree1916da68e0eaf83ecbae259f4cf5500f3fbcd65e
parent6378109479f5b474e8205c8478f484b209078772 (diff)
downloadperl-dfd03a6ac1d5f203eddfe08b5e4b5ab70ccb1e3a.tar.gz
perldelta: Revert erroneous C<> removal for Inf/NaN output
Also clarify the fact that these refer to the literal strings that get output when stringifying infinite and not-a-numer values, not to the values themselves.
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 422eb9fe89..c61596f8d9 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -194,8 +194,8 @@ as the left-hand side is a valid lvalue. This allows S<C<(undef,undef,$foo)
Floating point values are able to hold the special values infinity, negative
infinity, and NaN (not-a-number). Now we more robustly recognize and
-propagate the value in computations, and on output normalize them to
-an infinite value or not-a-number.
+propagate the value in computations, and on output normalize them to the strings
+C<Inf>, C<-Inf>, and C<NaN>.
See also the L<POSIX> enhancements.