From @tonycoz

This looks like someone manually applied a patch and missed removing the leading + from some of the lines.

From @tonycoz

From cf891dd2cbc4d51ae822940444ff30eaee1e8a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:04:58 +1000
Subject: fix documentation mangled by a probably manually applied patch

---
 dist/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dist/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm b/dist/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
index aebf74e..ce976b0 100644
--- a/dist/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+++ b/dist/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ otherwise.
 This works like <$io> described in L<perlop/"I/O Operators">
 except that it's more readable and can be safely called in a
 list context but still returns just one line.  If used as the conditional
-+within a C<while> or C-style C<for> loop, however, you will need to
-+emulate the functionality of <$io> with C<< defined($_ = $io->getline) >>.
+within a C<while> or C-style C<for> loop, however, you will need to
+emulate the functionality of <$io> with C<< defined($_ = $io->getline) >>.
 
 =item $io->getlines
 
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ use IO ();	# Load the XS module
 require Exporter;
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 
-$VERSION = "1.35";
+$VERSION = "1.36";
 $VERSION = eval $VERSION;
 
 @EXPORT_OK = qw(
-- 
2.1.4

From @jkeenan

On Tue Apr 12 00​:07​:02 2016, tonyc wrote​:

This looks like someone manually applied a patch and missed removing
the leading + from some of the lines.

Does a small documentation correction like this have to wait until 5.25.0?

Thank you very much.
--
James E Keenan (jkeenan@​cpan.org)

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

From @jkeenan

On Tue Apr 12 03​:09​:28 2016, jkeenan wrote​:

On Tue Apr 12 00​:07​:02 2016, tonyc wrote​:

This looks like someone manually applied a patch and missed removing
the leading + from some of the lines.

Does a small documentation correction like this have to wait until 5.25.0?

The documentation error in question dates to June 2005.

Thank you very much.

--
James E Keenan (jkeenan@​cpan.org)

From @rjbs

* James E Keenan via RT <perlbug-followup@​perl.org> [2016-04-12T06​:09​:29]

On Tue Apr 12 00​:07​:02 2016, tonyc wrote​:

This looks like someone manually applied a patch and missed removing
the leading + from some of the lines.

Does a small documentation correction like this have to wait until 5.25.0?

No, I reckon not.

--
rjbs

From @tonycoz

On Tue Apr 12 04​:39​:14 2016, perl.p5p@​rjbs.manxome.org wrote​:

* James E Keenan via RT <perlbug-followup@​perl.org> [2016-04-12T06​:09​:29]

On Tue Apr 12 00​:07​:02 2016, tonyc wrote​:

This looks like someone manually applied a patch and missed removing
the leading + from some of the lines.

Does a small documentation correction like this have to wait until 5.25.0?

No, I reckon not.

Applied as 000aab2 with a commit message adjustment (it was a bit too vague.)

Tony

@tonycoz - Status changed from 'open' to 'pending release'

From @khwilliamson

Thank you for submitting this report. You have helped make Perl better.
 
With the release of Perl 5.24.0 on May 9, 2016, this and 149 other issues have been resolved.

Perl 5.24.0 may be downloaded via https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.24.0

@khwilliamson - Status changed from 'pending release' to 'resolved'