typos and whitespace fixes

S99-glossary.pod

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ permanent, and deeper source of explanations in the context of Perl 6.
 
 If you, as a reader, miss a term in a glossary, just add the term with the
 explanation.  Or if you are not sure what the missing term means, just add a
-header for the term.  Without doubt, someone else more knowledgable will add
+header for the term.  Without doubt, someone else more knowledgeable will add
 the explanation later for you and everybody else.
 
 =head1 A
@@ -475,8 +475,8 @@ See L</compilation unit>.
 
 Property of simultaneous computations sharing resources. It necessitates
 some form of collaboration to guaranty the consistency of the said
-ressources. Computations are materialized by L</process>es or
-L</thread>s. Colllaboration involves synchronization primivives
+resources. Computations are materialized by L</process>es or
+L</thread>s. Collaboration involves synchronization primitives
 likes mutexes, locks, semaphores.  Perl 6 provides high level
 abstractions like L</feed>s, L</junction>s, L</hyperoperator>s,
 L</promise>s, L</channels> so that the programmer is usually spared
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ on its L</context>.  An expression is all or part of a L</statement>.
 The extent is the interval of time a L</first class> entity lives.  The
 extent is different from the L</scope> of a name. 
 A L</lexical variable> can be still alive when its name is out of scope if
-some reference stil exists.
+some reference still exists.
 
 =head2 Extop
 
@@ -817,8 +817,8 @@ Short for L</functional programming>
 
 =head2 freenode
 
-An L</IRC> server that hosts L</channel>s related to Perl 6 projects accessible thru
-an irc client at C<irc.freenode.org>.
+An L</IRC> server that hosts L</channel>s related to Perl 6 projects accessible
+through an IRC client at C<irc.freenode.org>.
 
 =head2 FSVO
 
@@ -1292,9 +1292,10 @@ as such when used as a L</stack>.  See also L</FIFO>.
 =head2 line noise
 
 Used to qualified unreadable code. Often used by people that don't understand
-the syntax of the used language. Perl is often deemed line noise, especially because
-of its abondance of L</metacharacters>, like L</sigil>s. For the trained reader,
-they are very useful because the sigil denote an associated L</role>
+the syntax of the used language. Perl is often deemed line noise, especially
+because of its abundance of L</metacharacters>, like L</sigil>s. For the
+trained reader, they are very useful because the sigil denote an associated
+L</role>
 
 See </TheDamian> L</answer|http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-damian-conway/>
 to the question I<Perl looks like a regular expression>.
@@ -1384,7 +1385,7 @@ See also L</parse>.
 =head2 META.info
 
 A L</JSON> file that lies in the root of a L</repository> for a project written
-in Perl 6. It describes a project and list its dependancies.
+in Perl 6. It describes a project and list its dependencies.
 Documented in L<spec.pod|https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/blob/master/spec.pod>.
 
 =head2 metamodel
@@ -1587,8 +1588,9 @@ Acronym for L<Object-oriented programming|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-o
 
 =head2 op
 
-Ops are L</opcode>s that belong to the L</NQP> L<interpreter> or that are dynamically
-charged by the interpeter of another language. The word L</extops> is used to denote the latter ops
+Ops are L</opcode>s that belong to the L</NQP> L<interpreter> or that are
+dynamically charged by the interpreter of another language. The word L</extops>
+is used to denote the latter ops
 
 =head2 opcode
 
@@ -1622,7 +1624,7 @@ The C<< <O(I<...>)>  >> construction gives information about an operator
 that completes the information provided by its category.  Below
 C<%conditional> is the category, C<< :reducecheck<ternary> >>, which
 specifies calling C<.ternary> to post-process the L<parse subtree|/parse
-tree> and C<< :pasttype<if> >> specifies the nqp L</opcode> generated in the
+tree> and C<< :pasttype<if> >> specifies the NQP L</opcode> generated in the
 L</AST> from the parse subtree.
 
         <O('%conditional, :reducecheck<ternary>, :pasttype<if>')>
@@ -1676,7 +1678,7 @@ Compare with the L</adverbial pair> notation.
 
 A Perl 6 program designed to make it easier to download, compile and install
 L</module>s according to the transitive dependencies specified in the
-C<META.info> medadata files of said modules.  Unlike other L</package
+C<META.info> metadata files of said modules.  Unlike other L</package
 manager>s, panda supports many L</VM>s, namely the three VMs supported by
 the L</Rakudo> compiler: L</MoarVM>, L</Parrot> and L</JVM>.  The official
 set of modules is called the L</ecosystem> according to the L</github>
@@ -2155,8 +2157,9 @@ lazily to optimize loading time.
 
 =head2 shared library
 
-L</operating system> level L</library> dynamically loaded by a a L</process>. When different processes
-load the same library, it is loaded once in memory, so the shared adjective.
+L</operating system> level L</library> dynamically loaded by a L</process>.
+When different processes load the same library, it is loaded once in memory, so
+the shared adjective.
 
 =head2 shortname
 
@@ -2232,7 +2235,7 @@ L</repository> that contains the said test suite.
 =head2 special variable
 
 Variable with one of the L</twigil> C<?>, C<*> or C<=>; or L</magic variable>.
-The said twigils respectivly correspand to L</compiler constant>s, L</context variable>s
+The said twigils respectively correspond to L</compiler constant>s, L</context variable>s
 or L</pod> data.
 
 See L<S28|http://design.perl6.org/S28.html>.
@@ -2262,14 +2265,14 @@ L<http://jnthn.net/papers/2013-yapceu-moarvm.pdf>.
 
 =head2 stage
 
-Can denote steps either on bootstrapping nqp, or compilation stages.
+Can denote steps either on bootstrapping NQP, or compilation stages.
 
 For bootstrapping stages, see L</bootstrap>.
 
-Compilation proceeds on successives stages. Later stages are
+Compilation proceeds on successive stages. Later stages are
 L</backend dependent>.  When there is a dumper availabe, you can see
 the output of one stage with the switch C<--target=I<stage_name>>.
-The argument is case insensitive.  The backend independant stages are
+The argument is case insensitive.  The backend independent stages are
 C<parse> and C<ast>.  The L</JVM> backend specific states are C<jast>,
 C<classfile>, C<jar>, C<jvm>.  For L</MoarVM>, they are C<mast>,
 C<mbc>. C<moar>.
@@ -2306,7 +2309,7 @@ Name of the string type.
 
 =head2 string
 
-A sequence of characters.  See L</characters> fo the definition of
+A sequence of characters.  See L</characters> for the definition of
 string length according to the different abstractions underlying a
 L</Unicode> string.  There is some speculation of string being
 L</lazy> in some future Perl 6 version.
@@ -2318,7 +2321,7 @@ Short for subroutine.
 =head2 Subroutine
 
 A subroutine is like a L</block>, but its L</runtime> context is stacked.
-WHen a subroutine is called, its context is pushed in the context stack
+When a subroutine is called, its context is pushed in the context stack
 and the code pointer moves to its block. When executing a return, the context stack
 is popped and the return argument becomes the value of the calling expression.
 
@@ -2507,7 +2510,7 @@ corresponding L<boxed|/boxing> value.
 
 =head2 type erasure
 
-Type annotation for a value of L</static type> is unecessary at L</runtime>
+Type annotation for a value of L</static type> is unnecessary at L</runtime>
 The absence of that annotation at compared to L</compile time> is called type
 erasure.