perlform: #109408

[perl5.git] / pod / perlform.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlform.pod b/pod/perlform.pod
index a2aa658..fc5d02b 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlform.pod
+++ b/pod/perlform.pod
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ by checking $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT before each write() and print the footer
 yourself if necessary.
 
 Here's another strategy: Open a pipe to yourself, using C<open(MYSELF, "|-")>
-(see L<perlfunc/"open FILEHANDLE">) and always write() to MYSELF instead of STDOUT.
+(see L<perlfunc/open>) and always write() to MYSELF instead of STDOUT.
 Have your child process massage its STDIN to rearrange headers and footers
 however you like.  Not very convenient, but doable.
 
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ For example:
     @<<<  @|||  @>>>
     END
 
-    print "Wow, I just stored `$^A' in the accumulator!\n";
+    print "Wow, I just stored '$^A' in the accumulator!\n";
 
 Or to make an swrite() subroutine, which is to write() what sprintf()
 is to printf(), do this:
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ SMTP cutoff.
 
 Lexical variables (declared with "my") are not visible within a
 format unless the format is declared within the scope of the lexical
-variable.  (They weren't visible at all before version 5.001.)
+variable.
 
 If a program's environment specifies an LC_NUMERIC locale and C<use
 locale> is in effect when the format is declared, the locale is used