=item *
C<Archive::Extract> is a generic archive extraction mechanism
-for F<.tar> (plain, gziped or bzipped) or F<.zip> files.
+for F<.tar> (plain, gzipped or bzipped) or F<.zip> files.
=item *
C<Tie::Hash::NamedCapture> has been upgraded from version 0.07 to 0.08.
-Some of the Perl code has been converted to XS for efficency's sake.
+Some of the Perl code has been converted to XS for efficiency's sake.
=item *
the most common path for creating files from Perl became C<PerlIOUnix_open>,
which has always explicitly used C<0666> as the permission mask. This prevents
inheriting permissions from RMS defaults and ACLs, so to avoid that problem,
-we now pass C<0777> to open(). In theVMS CRTL, C<0777> has a special
+we now pass C<0777> to open(). In the VMS CRTL, C<0777> has a special
meaning over and above intersecting with the current umask; specifically, it
allows Unix syscalls to preserve native default permissions (5.12.3).
=head1 Acknowledgements
-Perl 5.15.0 represents approximatly five weeks of development since Perl
+Perl 5.15.0 represents approximately five weeks of development since Perl
5.14.0 and contains approximately 54,000 lines of changes across 618
files from 57 authors.
=item *
-The expermental C<fetch_cop_label> function has been renamed to
+The experimental C<fetch_cop_label> function has been renamed to
C<cop_fetch_label>.
=item *
=item *
C<Archive::Extract> is a generic archive extraction mechanism
-for F<.tar> (plain, gziped or bzipped) or F<.zip> files.
+for F<.tar> (plain, gzipped or bzipped) or F<.zip> files.
=item *
(W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<@{foo}>, which might be
asking for the variable C<@foo>, or it might be calling a function
named foo, and dereferencing it as an array reference. If you wanted
-the varable, you can just write C<@foo>. If you wanted to call the
+the variable, you can just write C<@foo>. If you wanted to call the
function, write C<@{foo()}> ... or you could just not have a variable
and a function with the same name, and save yourself a lot of trouble.
to that file's purpose.
Like chapters in many books, all top-level Perl source files (along
-with a few others here and there) begin with an epigramic inscription
+with a few others here and there) begin with an epigrammatic inscription
that alludes, indirectly and metaphorically, to the material you're
about to read.
C<NYTProf> will generate a report database into the file F<nytprof.out> by
default. Human readable reports can be generated from here by using the
supplied C<nytprofhtml> (HTML output) and C<nytprofcsv> (CSV output) programs.
-We've used the Unix sytem C<html2text> utility to convert the
+We've used the Unix system C<html2text> utility to convert the
F<nytprof/index.html> file for convenience here.
$> html2text nytprof/index.html
That is, with "=for", you can have only one paragraph's worth
of text (i.e., the text in "=foo targetname text..."), but with
"=begin targetname" ... "=end targetname", you can have any amount
-of stuff inbetween. (Note that there still must be a blank line
+of stuff in between. (Note that there still must be a blank line
after the "=begin" command and a blank line before the "=end"
command.
is currently only used internally by perl's engine for but might be
used in the future for all engines for optimisations.
-=head2 C<nparens>, C<lasparen>, and C<lastcloseparen>
+=head2 C<nparens>, C<lastparen>, and C<lastcloseparen>
These fields are used to keep track of how many paren groups could be matched
in the pattern, which was the last open paren to be entered, and which was
-------
* There is an exception to a bracketed character class matching a
-single character only. When the class is to match caselessely under C</i>
+single character only. When the class is to match caselessly under C</i>
matching rules, and a character inside the class matches a
multiple-character sequence caselessly under Unicode rules, the class
(when not L<inverted|/Negation>) will also match that sequence. For
This allows the programmer to look at the execution stack and variables to
find out the cause of the exception. As the debugger is being invoked as
the Perl interpreter is about to do a fatal exit, continuing the execution
-in debug mode is usally not practical.
+in debug mode is usually not practical.
Starting Perl in the VMS debugger may change the program execution
profile in a way that such problems are not reproduced.
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