Re: [PATCH] Tests are good

[perl5.git] / pod / perlguts.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlguts.pod b/pod/perlguts.pod
index 7c85dfb..8a1d511 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlguts.pod
+++ b/pod/perlguts.pod
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ call is not necessary (see L<Reference Counts and Mortality>).
 
 Perl provides the function C<sv_chop> to efficiently remove characters
 from the beginning of a string; you give it an SV and a pointer to
-somewhere inside the the PV, and it discards everything before the
+somewhere inside the PV, and it discards everything before the
 pointer. The efficiency comes by means of a little hack: instead of
 actually removing the characters, C<sv_chop> sets the flag C<OOK>
 (offset OK) to signal to other functions that the offset hack is in
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ specified below.
             /* Get the key from an HE structure and also return
                the length of the key string */
     SV*    hv_iterval(HV*, HE* entry);
-            /* Return a SV pointer to the value of the HE
+            /* Return an SV pointer to the value of the HE
                structure */
     SV*    hv_iternextsv(HV*, char** key, I32* retlen);
             /* This convenience routine combines hv_iternext,
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ package.
 
 =head2 Reference Counts and Mortality
 
-Perl uses an reference count-driven garbage collection mechanism. SVs,
+Perl uses a reference count-driven garbage collection mechanism. SVs,
 AVs, or HVs (xV for short in the following) start their life with a
 reference count of 1.  If the reference count of an xV ever drops to 0,
 then it will be destroyed and its memory made available for reuse.
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ was initially made magical.
 
 =head2 Magic Virtual Tables
 
-The C<mg_virtual> field in the C<MAGIC> structure is a pointer to a
+The C<mg_virtual> field in the C<MAGIC> structure is a pointer to an
 C<MGVTBL>, which is a structure of function pointers and stands for
 "Magic Virtual Table" to handle the various operations that might be
 applied to that variable.
@@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ C<sarg> of C<SV*> of length C<maxsarg>.
 
 =item C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>
 
-Similar to C<save_scalar>, but will reinstate a C<SV *>.
+Similar to C<save_scalar>, but will reinstate an C<SV *>.
 
 =item C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>
 
@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ C<sv_dump> to produce debugging output from Perl-space, so users of that
 module should already be familiar with its format.
 
 C<Perl_op_dump> can be used to dump an C<OP> structure or any of its
-derivatives, and produces output similiar to C<perl -Dx>; in fact,
+derivatives, and produces output similar to C<perl -Dx>; in fact,
 C<Perl_dump_eval> will dump the main root of the code being evaluated,
 exactly like C<-Dx>.
 
@@ -2349,7 +2349,7 @@ optimizations through the creation of "macro-ops" (ops which perform the
 functions of multiple ops which are usually executed together, such as
 C<gvsv, gvsv, add>.) 
 
-This feature is implmented as a new op type, C<OP_CUSTOM>. The Perl
+This feature is implemented as a new op type, C<OP_CUSTOM>. The Perl
 core does not "know" anything special about this op type, and so it will
 not be involved in any optimizations. This also means that you can
 define your custom ops to be any op structure - unary, binary, list and