=item Setting $/ to a %s reference is forbidden
-(F) You tried to assign a reference to a non integer to C<$/>. In older
-Perls this would have behaved similarly to setting it to a reference
-to a positive integer, where the integer was the address of the reference.
+(F) You tried to assign a reference to a non integer to C<$/>. In older
+Perls this would have behaved similarly to setting it to a reference to
+a positive integer, where the integer was the address of the reference.
As of Perl 5.19.9 this is a fatal error, to allow future versions of Perl
-to use non integer refs for more interesting purposes.
+to use non-integer refs for more interesting purposes.
=item Setting $/ to a reference to %s as a form of slurp is deprecated, treating as undef
(W deprecated) You assigned a reference to a scalar to C<$/> where the
-referenced item is not a positive integer. In older perls this B<appeared>
+referenced item is not a positive integer.
In older perls this B<appeared>
to work the same as setting it to C<undef> but was in fact internally
different, less efficient and with very bad luck could have resulted in
your file being split by a stringified form of the reference.
setting C<$/> to undef, with the exception that this warning would be
thrown.
-You are recommended to change your code to set C<$/> to C<undef>
-explicitly if you wish to slurp the file. In future versions of Perl
-assigning a reference to will throw a fatal error.
+You are recommended to change your code to set C<$/> to C<undef> explicitly
+if you wish to slurp the file. In future versions of Perl assigning
+a reference to will throw a fatal error.
=item shift on reference is experimental
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