perldelta - finalize with acknowledgements for 5.17.3

[perl5.git] / pod / perlref.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod
index 9189de2..5f9ce0a 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlref.pod
+++ b/pod/perlref.pod
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Hard references are smart--they keep track of reference counts for you,
 automatically freeing the thing referred to when its reference count goes
 to zero.  (Reference counts for values in self-referential or
 cyclic data structures may not go to zero without a little help; see
-L<perlobj/"Two-Phased Garbage Collection"> for a detailed explanation.)
+L</"Circular References"> for a detailed explanation.)
 If that thing happens to be an object, the object is destructed.  See
 L<perlobj> for more about objects.  (In a sense, everything in Perl is an
 object, but we usually reserve the word for references to objects that
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ People frequently expect it to work like this.  So it does.
     ${$name x 2} = 3;          # Sets $foofoo
     $name->[0] = 4;            # Sets $foo[0]
     @$name = ();               # Clears @foo
-    &$name();                  # Calls &foo() (as in Perl 4)
+    &$name();                  # Calls &foo()
     $pack = "THAT";
     ${"${pack}::$name"} = 5;   # Sets $THAT::foo without eval
 
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ variables, which are all "global" to the package.
 
 =head2 Not-so-symbolic references
 
-Since Perl verion 5.001, brackets around a symbolic reference can simply
+Brackets around a symbolic reference can simply
 serve to isolate an identifier or variable name from the rest of an
 expression, just as they always have within a string.  For example,
 
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ expression, just as they always have within a string.  For example,
     print "${push}over";
 
 has always meant to print "pop on over", even though push is
-a reserved word.  In 5.001, this was generalized to work the same
+a reserved word.  This is generalized to work the same
 without the enclosing double quotes, so that
 
     print ${push} . "over";
@@ -592,8 +592,7 @@ and even
 
     print ${ push } . "over";
 
-will have the same effect.  (This would have been a syntax error in
-Perl 5.000, though Perl 4 allowed it in the spaceless form.)  This
+will have the same effect.  This
 construct is I<not> considered to be a symbolic reference when you're
 using strict refs: