Re: Converting "’" to an Apostrophe?

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
<noreply@xxxxxxxxx>], who wrote in article <62vbniF23uf7cU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
perldoc perlop

s Treat string as single line. (Make . match a newline)
Great, that's a clarification I wasn't aware of.

In which way it is a clarification?

Compared to the previous perlop versions, where the part within
parentheses was not there.

As I said, I do not see this change as an improvement; for me, it is
"an empty change". When I see such a statement, what I think is

yet another piece of vague ambiguous `conversational' English;
hence, it is DESIGNED to be a very ROUGH overview, and is not
designed to convey any precise information; I'm SUPPOSED TO
DISREGARD whatever it says since the purpose is just to instill a
warm fuzzy feeling in the reader.

Maybe other people read documentation differently, but in my practice,
such an approach usually gives quite good result.

[Unfortunately, this approach does not work with Perl docs; some
pieces are written in a very precise English, and STILL are wrong if
trusted to be true (i.e., the design is to instill a warm fuzzy
feeling).]

Hope this helps,
Ilya
.

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