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Postings from November 2000
Here's a little patch for two documentation typos noticed by Michael Somos. I sent this in about a week ago, but I think it got lost somewhere, as perlbug didn't pick it up. -R --- Porting/Contract.orig Mon Nov 6 09:32:41 2000 +++ Porting/Contract Mon Nov 6 09:32:51 2000 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ We recognize that the Perl core, defined as the software distributed with the heart of Perl itself, is a joint project on the part of all of us. ->From time to time, a script, module, or set of modules (hereafter referred +From time to time, a script, module, or set of modules (hereafter referred to simply as a "module") will prove so widely useful and/or so integral to the correct functioning of Perl itself that it should be distributed with Perl core. This should never be done without the author's explicit --- pod/perltoot.pod.orig Mon Nov 6 09:34:07 2000 +++ pod/perltoot.pod Mon Nov 6 09:34:47 2000 @@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@ call a class method (one expecting a string argument) on an object (one expecting a reference), or vice versa. -Z<>From the C++ perspective, all methods in Perl are virtual. +From the C++ perspective, all methods in Perl are virtual. This, by the way, is why they are never checked for function prototypes in the argument list as regular builtin and user-defined functions can beThread Next