Author: larry Date: Wed Jun 28 22:49:04 2006 New Revision: 9723 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod
Log: Revised some ambiguous sentences. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Wed Jun 28 22:49:04 2006 @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ exception, though returning a defined value after catching an exception is okay. -In the absence of exception propagation, a successful exit is one that +In the absence of error exception propagation, a successful exit is one that returns a defined value in scalar context, or any number of values in list context as long as the length is defined. (A length of +Inf is considered a defined length. A length of 0 is also a defined length, Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Wed Jun 28 22:49:04 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27 Oct 2004 - Last Modified: 28 Jun 2006 + Last Modified: 29 Jun 2006 Number: 12 - Version: 17 + Version: 18 =head1 Overview @@ -661,8 +661,9 @@ However, a given multi may advertise multiple long names, some of which are shorter than the complete long name. This is done by putting a semicolon after each advertised long name (replacing the comma, -if present). The initial dispatch is always to the shortest advertised -long name. Since the shorter long name does not guarantee uniqueness, +if present). The initial dispatch starts by pretending that the shortest +advertised long name is the complete long name (and likewise across the entire +set of candidates). Since the shorter long name does not guarantee uniqueness, if that shorter long name is chosen for dispatch, and a tie would be declared for that dispatch, the next longer set of long names may be used to break ties, for those candidates that supply longer names.
