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authorRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2012-04-24 22:36:03 -0400
committerRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2012-04-24 22:36:48 -0400
commitb735b77b373b25182762b9b76850586c9d74e2ab (patch)
tree9adc202262bb6a5da7cdeda71182f7f269a5f4e0 /pod/perlsyn.pod
parent977616ef47984cde9b564db0b232535501edb738 (diff)
downloadperl-b735b77b373b25182762b9b76850586c9d74e2ab.tar.gz
fix some typos in perlsyn.pod
(both reported by Tom Christiansen)
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diff --git a/pod/perlsyn.pod b/pod/perlsyn.pod
index 9cceac00b4..3bebeec7ad 100644
--- a/pod/perlsyn.pod
+++ b/pod/perlsyn.pod
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ binary flip-flop C<...> operator. One is a statement and the other an
operator. (Perl doesn't usually confuse them because usually Perl can tell
whether it wants an operator or a statement, but see below for exceptions.)
-When Perl 5.12 or later encounters an ellipses statement, it parses this
+When Perl 5.12 or later encounters an ellipsis statement, it parses this
without error, but if and when you should actually try to execute it, Perl
throws an exception with the text C<Unimplemented>:
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ differences between Perl 6's and Perl 5's data models, but also because
the Perl 6 spec has changed since Perl 5 rushed into early adoption.
In Perl 6, C<when()> will always do an implicit smartmatch with its
-argument, while in Perl 5 it is convenient albeit potentially confusing) to
+argument, while in Perl 5 it is convenient (albeit potentially confusing) to
suppress this implicit smartmatch in various rather loosely-defined
situations, as roughly outlined above. (The difference is largely because
Perl 5 does not have, even internally, a boolean type.)