-User pragmata store their state by writing to C<%^H>, hence these two
-routines manipulate C<%^H>. The state information in C<%^H> stored in the
-optree, and can be retrieved at runtime with C<caller>, at index 10 of the
-list of returned results. In the example pragma, retrieval is encapsulated
-into the routine C<in_effect()>. This uses C<caller(1)> to determine the
-state of C<$^H{myint}> when each line of the user's script was called, and
+User pragmata store their state by writing to the magical hash C<%^H>,
+hence these two routines manipulate it. The state information in C<%^H> is
+stored in the optree, and can be retrieved at runtime with C<caller()>, at
+index 10 of the list of returned results. In the example pragma, retrieval
+is encapsulated into the routine C<in_effect()>, which takes as parameter
+the number of call frames to go up to find the value of the pragma in the
+user's script. This uses C<caller()> to determine the value of
+C<$^H{myint}> when each line of the user's script was called, and