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Spelling fixes for perl@23492 #7594

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p5pRT opened this issue Nov 12, 2004 · 8 comments
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Spelling fixes for perl@23492 #7594

p5pRT opened this issue Nov 12, 2004 · 8 comments

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p5pRT commented Nov 12, 2004

Migrated from rt.perl.org#32419 (status was 'resolved')

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p5pRT commented Nov 12, 2004

From @floatingatoll

This is a variety of spelling fixes for perl@​23492. I studiously
avoided any sort of cultural or otherwise debatable spelling
differences.

- R.

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p5pRT commented Nov 12, 2004

From @floatingatoll

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--- perl-23492/pod/perl573delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perl573delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:58 2004
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 
 =item 11656
 
-allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8
+allow building perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8
 the default script encoding (not the default since that would
 break all scripts having legacy eight-bit data in them)
 
--- perl-23492/pod/perl58delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perl58delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:52 2004
@@ -2992,7 +2992,7 @@
 =item *
 
 Malformed Unicode encodings (UTF-8 and UTF-16) cause a lot of warnings,
-ad doestrying to use UTF-16 surrogates (which are unimplemented).
+as does trying to use UTF-16 surrogates (which are unimplemented).
 
 =item *
 
--- perl-23492/pod/perl590delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perl590delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:42 2004
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 
 =head2 Assertions
 
-Perl 5.9.0 has experimental support for assertions.  Note that hhe user
+Perl 5.9.0 has experimental support for assertions.  Note that the user
 interface is not fully stabilized yet, and it may change until the 5.10.0
 release.  A new command-line switch, B<-A>, is used to activate
 assertions, which are declared with the C<assertions> pragma.  See
--- perl-23492/pod/perl591delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perl591delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:33 2004
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This document describes differences between the 5.9.0 and the 5.9.1
-developement releases. See L<perl590delta> for the differences between
+development releases. See L<perl590delta> for the differences between
 5.8.0 and 5.9.0.
 
 =head1 Incompatible Changes
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 The lvalues returned by the three argument form of substr() used to be a
 "fixed length window" on the original string. In some cases this could
 cause surprising action at distance or other undefined behaviour. Now the
-length of the window adjusts iself to the length of the string assigned to
+length of the window adjusts itself to the length of the string assigned to
 it.
 
 =head2 The C<:unique> attribute is only meaningful for globals
--- perl-23492/pod/perl592delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perl592delta.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:19 2004
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This document describes differences between the 5.9.1 and the 5.9.2
-developement releases. See L<perl590delta> and L<perl591delta> for the
+development releases. See L<perl590delta> and L<perl591delta> for the
 differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.1.
 
 =head1 Incompatible Changes
--- perl-23492/pod/perlapi.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlapi.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:14 2004
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@
 marked as readonly and the key is subsequently deleted, the key is not actually
 deleted but is marked by assigning it a value of &PL_sv_placeholder.  This tags
 it so it will be ignored by future operations such as iterating over the hash,
-but will still allow the hash to have a value reaasigned to the key at some
+but will still allow the hash to have a value reassigned to the key at some
 future point.  This function clears any such placeholder keys from the hash.
 See Hash::Util::lock_keys() for an example of its use.
 
@@ -5130,7 +5130,7 @@
 in there (they will point at the beginning of the I<next> character).
 If the pointers behind pe1 or pe2 are non-NULL, they are the end
 pointers beyond which scanning will not continue under any
-circustances.  If the byte lengths l1 and l2 are non-zero, s1+l1 and
+circumstances.  If the byte lengths l1 and l2 are non-zero, s1+l1 and
 s2+l2 will be used as goal end pointers that will also stop the scan,
 and which qualify towards defining a successful match: all the scans
 that define an explicit length must reach their goal pointers for
--- perl-23492/pod/perlapio.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlapio.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:07:02 2004
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
 
 This corresponds to fflush().  Sends any buffered write data to the
 underlying file.  If called with C<NULL> this may flush all open
-streams (or core dump with some USE_STDIO implementattions).  Calling
+streams (or core dump with some USE_STDIO implementations).  Calling
 on a handle open for read only, or on which last operation was a read
 of some kind may lead to undefined behaviour on some USE_STDIO
 implementations.  The USE_PERLIO (layers) implementation tries to
--- perl-23492/pod/perldata.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perldata.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:06:56 2004
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@
 
 =head2 Subscripts
 
-An array is subscripted by specifying a dollary sign (C<$>), then the
+An array is subscripted by specifying a dollar sign (C<$>), then the
 name of the array (without the leading C<@>), then the subscript inside
 square brackets.  For example:
 
--- perl-23492/pod/perldebtut.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perldebtut.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:06:50 2004
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
 - just about whatever you throw at it:
 
 Let's make a quick object and x-plode it, first we'll start the debugger:
-it wants some form of input from STDIN, so we give it something non-commital,
+it wants some form of input from STDIN, so we give it something non-committal,
 a zero:
 
 	> perl -de 0
--- perl-23492/pod/perlipc.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlipc.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:06:43 2004
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
 "loop". In future Perl's signal mechanism may be changed to avoid this
 - perhaps by simply disallowing %SIG handlers on signals of that
 type. Until then the work-round is not to set a %SIG handler on those
-signals. (Which signals they are is operating system dependant.)
+signals. (Which signals they are is operating system dependent.)
 
 =item Signals triggered by operating system state
 
--- perl-23492/pod/perlport.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlport.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:06:28 2004
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@
 
 What C<\n> represents depends on the type of file opened.  It usually
 represents C<\012> but it could also be C<\015>, C<\012>, C<\015\012>, 
-C<\000>, C<\040>, or nothing depending on the file organiztion and 
+C<\000>, C<\040>, or nothing depending on the file organization and 
 record format.  The VMS::Stdio module provides access to the 
 special fopen() requirements of files with unusual attributes on VMS.
 
--- perl-23492/pod/perlre.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlre.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:06:17 2004
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
 literally.  If Unicode is in effect, C<\s> matches also "\x{85}",
 "\x{2028}, and "\x{2029}", see L<perlunicode> for more details about
 C<\pP>, C<\PP>, and C<\X>, and L<perluniintro> about Unicode in general.
-You can define your own C<\p> and C<\P> propreties, see L<perlunicode>.
+You can define your own C<\p> and C<\P> properties, see L<perlunicode>.
 
 The POSIX character class syntax
 
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@
 
 Inside the C<(?{...})> block, C<$_> refers to the string the regular
 expression is matching against. You can also use C<pos()> to know what is
-the current position of matching withing this string.
+the current position of matching within this string.
 
 The C<code> is properly scoped in the following sense: If the assertion
 is backtracked (compare L<"Backtracking">), all changes introduced after
--- perl-23492/pod/perlretut.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlretut.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:05:41 2004
@@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@
 character class of Unicode 'marks', for example accent marks.
 For the full list see L<perlunicode>.
 
-The Unicode has also been separated into various sets of charaters
+The Unicode has also been separated into various sets of characters
 which you can test with C<\p{In...}> (in) and C<\P{In...}> (not in),
 for example C<\p{Latin}>, C<\p{Greek}>, or C<\P{Katakana}>.
 For the full list see L<perlunicode>.
@@ -2271,7 +2271,7 @@
     $pat = qr/(?{ $foo = 1 })/;  # precompile code regexp
     /foo${pat}bar/;      # compiles ok
 
-If a regexp has (1) code expressions and interpolating variables,or
+If a regexp has (1) code expressions and interpolating variables, or
 (2) a variable that interpolates a code expression, perl treats the
 regexp as an error. If the code expression is precompiled into a
 variable, however, interpolating is ok. The question is, why is this
--- perl-23492/pod/perlrun.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlrun.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:04:53 2004
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@
 lines printed.  If a file named by an argument cannot be opened for
 some reason, Perl warns you about it and moves on to the next file.
 
-Here is an efficient way to delete all files that haven't been modifed for
+Here is an efficient way to delete all files that haven't been modified for
 at least a week:
 
     find . -mtime +7 -print | perl -nle unlink
--- perl-23492/pod/perlsub.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:56 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlsub.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:04:35 2004
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
 
 The C<BEGIN>, C<CHECK>, C<INIT> and C<END> subroutines are not so much
 subroutines as named special code blocks, of which you can have more
-than one in a package, and which you can B<not> call explicitely.  See
+than one in a package, and which you can B<not> call explicitly.  See
 L<perlmod/"BEGIN, CHECK, INIT and END">
 
 =head2 Private Variables via my()
--- perl-23492/pod/perlthrtut.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:57 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perlthrtut.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:04:27 2004
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@
 =head2 Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
 
 Semaphores are a kind of generic locking mechanism. In their most basic
-form, they behave very much like lockable scalars, except that thay
+form, they behave very much like lockable scalars, except that they
 can't hold data, and that they must be explicitly unlocked. In their
 advanced form, they act like a kind of counter, and can allow multiple
 threads to have the 'lock' at any one time.
--- perl-23492/pod/perltodo.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:57 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perltodo.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:04:15 2004
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
 defines one local patch, of the form "MAINT12345" or "RC1". The output of
 perl -v doesn't report that a perl isn't an official release, and this
 information can get lost in bugs reports. Because of this, the minor version
-isn't bumped up util RC time, to minimise the possibility of versions of perl
+isn't bumped up until RC time, to minimise the possibility of versions of perl
 escaping that believe themselves to be newer than they actually are.
 
 It would be useful to find an elegant way to have the "this is an interim
--- perl-23492/pod/perltooc.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:03:57 2004
+++ perl-23492/pod/perltooc.pod	Fri Nov 12 08:04:01 2004
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
 
 It is widely perceived, and indeed has often been written, that Perl
 provides no data hiding, that it affords the class designer no privacy
-nor isolation, merely a rag-tag assortment of weak and unenforcible
+nor isolation, merely a rag-tag assortment of weak and unenforceable
 social conventions instead.  This perception is demonstrably false and
 easily disproven.  In the next section, we show how to implement forms
 of privacy that are far stronger than those provided in nearly any
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@
 properly designed accessor methods is probably not a good idea after all.
 
 Restricting access to class attributes from the class itself is usually
-not enforcible even in strongly object-oriented languages.  But in Perl,
+not enforceable even in strongly object-oriented languages.  But in Perl,
 you can.
 
 Here's one way:
@@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@
 or the AutoLoader, because they alter the lexical scope in which the
 module's methods wind up getting compiled.
 
-The usual mealy-mouthed package-mungeing doubtless applies to setting
+The usual mealy-mouthed package-munging doubtless applies to setting
 up names of object attributes.  For example, C<< $self->{ObData1} >>
 should probably be C<< $self->{ __PACKAGE__ . "_ObData1" } >>, but that
 would just confuse the examples.

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p5pRT commented Nov 12, 2004

From @Tux

On Fri 12 Nov 2004 17​:14, Richard Soderberg (via RT) <perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Richard Soderberg
# Please include the string​: [perl #32419]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org​:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32419 >

This is a variety of spelling fixes for perl@​23492. I studiously
avoided any sort of cultural or otherwise debatable spelling
differences.

Change 23496 submitted.

It was fun to see what typo's you caught. Thanks

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p5pRT commented Nov 12, 2004

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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p5pRT commented Nov 12, 2004

From jcromie@divsol.com

Richard Soderberg (via RT) wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Richard Soderberg
# Please include the string​: [perl #32419]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org​:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32419 >

This is a variety of spelling fixes for perl@​23492. I studiously
avoided any sort of cultural or otherwise debatable spelling
differences.

- R.

<snipped>

thats a lot of fixes! did you do this systematically ?

Its interesting to think about writing something like this;

perldoc `find . ` | aspell

but obviously thats not enough..
.. and you may have done it already..

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p5pRT commented Nov 13, 2004

From @floatingatoll

coral@​cay​:Work/p4/cpanplus/devel/ > for i in lib/CPANPLUS.pm
lib/**/*.pm; do podspell $i > $i.txt && cp $i.txt{,.orig} && open -e
$i.txt; done

That's what I started out with; merging the post-spellchecked diffs
back into the code was the slowest part.

- R.

On 12 Nov 2004 21​:36​:03 -0000, Jim Cromie via RT
<perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

Richard Soderberg (via RT) wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Richard Soderberg
# Please include the string​: [perl #32419]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org​:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32419 >

This is a variety of spelling fixes for perl@​23492. I studiously
avoided any sort of cultural or otherwise debatable spelling
differences.

- R.

<snipped>

thats a lot of fixes! did you do this systematically ?

Its interesting to think about writing something like this;

perldoc `find . ` | aspell

but obviously thats not enough..
.. and you may have done it already..

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p5pRT commented Nov 15, 2004

From @smpeters

Patch applied by H. M. Brand.

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p5pRT commented Nov 15, 2004

@smpeters - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

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