Typographical etc. corrections to glossary.pod

Author: paultcochrane

lib/Language/glossary.pod

@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ Here C<f()> is a sub with one parameter, and since it has no explicit
 type, it is implicitly typed as C<Any>.  The C<Junction> argument causes
 the C<f(1|2|3)> call to be internally executed as C<f(1)|f(2)|f(3)>,
 and the resulting junction is C<2|4|6>. This process of separating
-Junction arguments into multiple calls to a function is called
+junction arguments into multiple calls to a function is called
 I<autothreading>.
 
 =head1 Instance
 
 An I<instance> of a class is also called an I<object> in some other
-programming languages. It has a storage for attributes, and is often
+programming languages. It has storage for attributes and is often
 the return value of a call to a method called C<new>, or a literal.
 
 Instances of most types are defined to be C<True>
@@ -65,29 +65,28 @@ e.g., C<defined($instance)> is C<True>.
     my $an_instance = A.new;
     say $an_instance.defined.perl;# defined($an_instance) works too.
 
-Or to put it another way, a class has all the blueprint of methods and
-attributes, and an instance carries it forward into the real world.
+To put things another way, a class contains the blueprints of methods and
+attributes, and an instance carries it into the real world.
 
 =head1 Invocant
 
-The object on which a method is called is called the I<invocant> in Perl 6.
+The object upon which a method is called, is referred to as the I<invocant> in Perl 6.
 It is what C<self> refers to in a method.
 
     say 'str'.uc;   # 'str' is the invocant of method uc
 
 =head1 Literal
 
-A I<literal> is a piece of code that directly stands for a (often
-built-in) object, and also refers to the object itself.
+A I<literal> is a piece of code that directly stands for an (often
+built-in) object and also refers to the object itself.
 
     my $x = 2;      # the 2 is a literal
     say $x;         # $x is not a literal, but a variable
 
-
 =head1 lvalue
 
-An I<lvalue> or a I<left value> is anything that can appear on the left
-hand side of the assignment operator C<=>; anything you can assign
+An I<lvalue>, or a I<left value>, is anything that can appear on the left
+hand side of the assignment operator C<=>.  It is anything you can assign
 to.
 
 Typical lvalues are variables, private and C<is rw> attributes, lists
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ Examples of lvalues:
     has $.attrib is rw;     $.attrib
     sub a is rw { $x };     a()
 
-Examples of things that are not lvalues
+Examples of things that are not lvalues:
 
     3                        # literals
     constant x = 3;          # constants