From @rrthomas

Created by @rrthomas

perldsc(1) contains the following text​:

The most important thing to understand about all data structures in
Perl -- including multidimensional arrays--

The first em dash has space around it; the second doesn't. Make up
your minds! (I'm assuming this is not a formatting artefact.)

Flags:
    category=docs
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.8:

Configured by Debian Project at Tue Nov 27 10:56:10 GMT 2007.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.15.7, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
    uname='linux palmer 2.6.15.7 #1 smp thu sep 7 19:42:20 utc 2006 i686 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i486-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 -Dd_dosuid -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-3ubuntu4)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.6.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.8
    gnulibc_version='2.6.1'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl v5.8.8:
    /home/rrt/local/share/perl5
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.8
    /usr/share/perl/5.8
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl v5.8.8:
    HOME=/home/rrt
    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/NX/bin:/usr/local/epocemx/bin:/home/rrt/bin:/home/rrt/local/i686/bin:/home/rrt/local/bin:/home/rrt/.luarocks/bin:/home/rrt/Work/Adsensus/svn/nancy/trunk:/home/rrt/Work/Adsensus/svn/adsensus/trunk:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
    PERL5LIB=/home/rrt/local/share/perl5
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

From @moritz

rrt@​sc3d.org (via RT) wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by rrt@​sc3d.org
# Please include the string​: [perl #59128]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59128 >

This is a bug report for perl from rrt@​sc3d.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.8.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]

perldsc(1) contains the following text​:

The most important thing to understand about all data structures in
Perl -- including multidimensional arrays--

The first em dash has space around it; the second doesn't. Make up
your minds! (I'm assuming this is not a formatting artefact.)

Since everywhere else the form without spaces is used, this patch
removes them (and wraps a word along to the next line).
Moritz

diff --git a/pod/perldsc.pod b/pod/perldsc.pod
index fd6403b..623e367 100644
--- a/pod/perldsc.pod
+++ b/pod/perldsc.pod
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ these types of data structures.
 =head1 REFERENCES
 X<reference> X<dereference> X<dereferencing> X<pointer>

-The most important thing to understand about all data structures in Perl
--- including multidimensional arrays--is that even though they might
+The most important thing to understand about all data structures in
+Perl--including multidimensional arrays--is that even though they might
 appear otherwise, Perl C<@ARRAY>s and C<%HASH>es are all internally
 one-dimensional.  They can hold only scalar values (meaning a string,
 number, or a reference).  They cannot directly contain other arrays or

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

From @Tux

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17​:47​:11 +0200, Moritz Lenz
<moritz@​casella.verplant.org> wrote​:

rrt@​sc3d.org (via RT) wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by rrt@​sc3d.org
# Please include the string​: [perl #59128]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59128 >

This is a bug report for perl from rrt@​sc3d.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.8.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]

perldsc(1) contains the following text​:

The most important thing to understand about all data structures in
Perl -- including multidimensional arrays--

The first em dash has space around it; the second doesn't. Make up
your minds! (I'm assuming this is not a formatting artefact.)

Since everywhere else the form without spaces is used, this patch
removes them (and wraps a word along to the next line).
Moritz

Thanks, applied as change #34389

diff --git a/pod/perldsc.pod b/pod/perldsc.pod
index fd6403b..623e367 100644
--- a/pod/perldsc.pod
+++ b/pod/perldsc.pod
@​@​ -71,8 +71,8 @​@​ these types of data structures.
=head1 REFERENCES
X<reference> X<dereference> X<dereferencing> X<pointer>

-The most important thing to understand about all data structures in Perl
--- including multidimensional arrays--is that even though they might
+The most important thing to understand about all data structures in
+Perl--including multidimensional arrays--is that even though they might
appear otherwise, Perl C<@​ARRAY>s and C<%HASH>es are all internally
one-dimensional. They can hold only scalar values (meaning a string,
number, or a reference). They cannot directly contain other arrays or

--
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using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00,
11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin.
http​://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http​://www.test-smoke.org/
http​://qa.perl.org http​://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

module@renee-baecker.de - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'