[PATCH] Re: [perl #20551] Documentation error for IO::Select

> Most likely it was meant to be:
>
> @ready = IO::Select->new(@handles)->can_read(0);

Updated (non-reversed) patch attached, against @18703.

> And while I have your attention, I'd advise to change any reference to 
> ERROR (the third mask) to EXCEPTION everywhere.

 From IO/Select.pm:

     warn("Call to deprecated method 'has_error', use 'has_exception'")

The code agrees with you; apparently errors are now called exceptions.  
Revised patch attached updates uses of "error" to "exception" as well.

  - R.

# attached, Mail.app breaks diff pretty badly.
--- ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm.orig	2003-02-14 23:59:01.000000000 -0500
+++ ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm	2003-02-15 00:07:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -250,13 +250,13 @@ IO::Select - OO interface to the select

      @ready = $s->can_read($timeout);

-    @ready = IO::Select->new(@handles)->read(0);
+    @ready = IO::Select->new(@handles)->can_read(0);

  =head1 DESCRIPTION

  The C<IO::Select> package implements an object approach to the system 
C<select>
  function call. It allows the user to see what IO handles, see 
L<IO::Handle>,
-are ready for reading, writing or have an error condition pending.
+are ready for reading, writing or have an exception pending.

  =head1 CONSTRUCTOR

@@ -324,16 +324,16 @@ the C<select> static method.

  Return the bit string suitable as argument to the core select() call.

-=item select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+=item select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] )

-C<select> is a static method, that is you call it with the package
-name like C<new>. C<READ>, C<WRITE> and C<ERROR> are either C<undef>
-or C<IO::Select> objects. C<TIMEOUT> is optional and has the same
-effect as for the core select call.
+C<select> is a static method, that is you call it with the package name
+like C<new>. C<READ>, C<WRITE> and C<EXCEPTION> are either C<undef> or
+C<IO::Select> objects. C<TIMEOUT> is optional and has the same effect 
as
+for the core select call.

  The result will be an array of 3 elements, each a reference to an array
  which will hold the handles that are ready for reading, writing and 
have
-error conditions respectively. Upon error an empty array is returned.
+exceptions respectively. Upon error an empty list is returned.

  =back

• [PATCH] Re: [perl #20551] Documentation error for IO::Select by Richard Soderberg
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #20551] Documentation error for IO::Select by Rafael Garcia-Suarez