perlexperiment: document the private_use experiment

[perl5.git] / pod / perl5004delta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perl5004delta.pod b/pod/perl5004delta.pod
index 572c2b5..264483e 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perl5004delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5004delta.pod
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ A bug in previous versions may have failed to detect some insecure
 conditions when taint checks are turned on.  (Taint checks are used
 in setuid or setgid scripts, or when explicitly turned on with the
 C<-T> invocation option.)  Although it's unlikely, this may cause a
-previously-working script to now fail -- which should be construed
-as a blessing, since that indicates a potentially-serious security
+previously-working script to now fail, which should be construed
+as a blessing since that indicates a potentially-serious security
 hole was just plugged.
 
 The new restrictions when tainting include:
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ your interpreters.
 
 File handles are now stored internally as type IO::Handle.  The
 FileHandle module is still supported for backwards compatibility, but
-it is now merely a front end to the IO::* modules -- specifically,
+it is now merely a front end to the IO::* modules, specifically
 IO::Handle, IO::Seekable, and IO::File.  We suggest, but do not
 require, that you use the IO::* modules in new code.
 
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ effect if perl is compiled with system malloc().)
 
 If this macro is defined, running out of memory need not be a fatal
 error: a memory pool can allocated by assigning to the special
-variable C<$^M>.  See L<"$^M">.
+variable C<$^M>.  See L</"$^M">.
 
 =item -DPACK_MALLOC
 
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ and above) or the Borland C++ compiler (versions 5.02 and above).
 The resulting perl can be used under Windows 95 (if it
 is installed in the same directory locations as it got installed
 in Windows NT).  This port includes support for perl extension
-building tools like L<MakeMaker> and L<h2xs>, so that many extensions
+building tools like L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> and L<h2xs>, so that many extensions
 available on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) can now be
 readily built under Windows NT.  See http://www.perl.com/ for more
 information on CPAN and F<README.win32> in the perl distribution for more
@@ -1214,8 +1214,8 @@ or a hash slice, such as
 
 (W) The pattern match (//), substitution (s///), and transliteration (tr///)
 operators work on scalar values.  If you apply one of them to an array
-or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to a scalar value -- the
-length of an array, or the population info of a hash -- and then work on
+or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to a scalar value (the
+length of an array or the population info of a hash) and then work on
 that scalar value.  This is probably not what you meant to do.  See
 L<perlfunc/grep> and L<perlfunc/map> for alternatives.