wording improvement in gory parsing details #22388
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Perl is not ambivalent, but it can handle ambiguity.
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It only took us 25 years to spot that!
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Well maybe it was a freudian slip
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Perl is not ambivalent, but it can handle ambiguity.
I can't believe I hadn't ever noticed this before, despite having read this documentation several times. But I think "ambivalence" is not quite the right word here, and the author meant to talk about ambiguous code.