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authorbrian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>2010-01-13 17:19:25 +0100
committerbrian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>2010-01-13 17:19:25 +0100
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* Em dash cleanup in pod/
I looked at all the instances of spaces around -- and in most cases converted the sentences to use more appropriate punctuation. In general, the -- in the perl docs seem to be there only to make really complicated and really long sentences. I didn't look at the closed em-dashes. They probably have the same sentence-complexity problem. I left some open em-dashes in place. Those are the ones used in lists.
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@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ contain a hyphen, so there is no ambiguity.
=head2 Assertions
-Assertions are conditions that have to be true -- they don't actually
+Assertions are conditions that have to be true; they don't actually
match parts of the substring. There are six assertions that are written as
backslash sequences.