Author: larry Date: Mon Jan 29 10:45:26 2007 New Revision: 13544 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log: Minor cleanups Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Mon Jan 29 10:45:26 2007 @@ -441,14 +441,14 @@ statement or block, and executes it once. Unlike C<do>, it evaluates the statement or block in void context; its return value is instead specified by calling the C<take> function one or more times -within the dynamic scope of the gather. The returned values are in the +within the dynamic scope of the C<gather>. The returned values are in the form of a lazy multislice, with each slice corresponding to one C<take> capture. (A multislice is lazily flattened in normal list context, -but you may "unflatten" it again with a @@() contextualizer.) +but you may "unflatten" it again with a C<@@()> contextualizer.) Because C<gather> evaluates its block or statement in void context, -this typically causes the C<take> statement to be evaluated in void -context. However, a C<take> statement that is not in void context +this typically causes the C<take> function to be evaluated in void +context. However, a C<take> function that is not in void context gathers its arguments I<en passant> and also returns them unchanged. This makes it easy to keep track of what you last "took":
