Author: duff
Date: 2010-02-24 17:20:23 +0100 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 29824
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
Log:
[S03] closure clarification for the LHS of &infix:<...>
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod 2010-02-24 13:45:41 UTC (rev 29823)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod 2010-02-24 16:20:23 UTC (rev 29824)
@@ -1842,8 +1842,8 @@
This operator would be fairly useless if it could only return the
literal values on the left. The power comes from generating
-new values from the old ones. If a closure is found in the
-left-hand list, it is not returned, but rather it is called
+new values from the old ones. If the last item in the left-hand
+list is a closure, it is not returned, but rather it is called
on the tail of the existing list to produce a new value. The
arity of the closure determines how many preceding values to
use as input in generating the next value in the series. For
@@ -1964,7 +1964,7 @@
But since "asymptotically approaching" is not the same as "equals", both of
the following are infinite lists, as if you'd specified C<*> for the limit
-rather tha 0:
+rather than 0:
1,1/2,1/4 ... 0 # like 1,1/2,1/4 ... *
1,-1/2,1/4 ... 0 # like 1,-1/2,1/4 ... *
