Merge branch 'master' of github.com:perl6/doc

Author: paultcochrane

lib/Language/5to6.pod

@@ -790,17 +790,17 @@ For look-around assertions:
 
 =item C<(?=[abc])> becomes C«<?[abc]>»
 
-=item C<(?=ar?bitrary* pattern)> becomes C«<before ar?bitrary pattern>»
+=item C<(?=ar?bitrary* pattern)> becomes C«<before ar?bitrary* pattern>»
 
 =item C<(?!=[abc])> becomes C«<![abc]>»
 
-=item C<(?!=ar?bitrary* pattern)> becomes C«<!before ar?bitrary pattern>»
+=item C<(?!=ar?bitrary* pattern)> becomes C«<!before ar?bitrary* pattern>»
 
-=item C«(?<=ar?bitrary* pattern)» becomes C«<after ar?bitrary pattern>»
+=item C«(?<=ar?bitrary* pattern)» becomes C«<after ar?bitrary* pattern>»
 
-=item C«(?<!ar?bitrary* pattern)» becomes C«<!after ar?bitrary pattern>»
+=item C«(?<!ar?bitrary* pattern)» becomes C«<!after ar?bitrary* pattern>»
 
-(Unrelated to <> syntax, the "lookaround" C</foo\Kbar/> becomes C</foo <( bar /> )>
+(Unrelated to <> syntax, the "lookaround" C</foo\Kbar/> becomes C«/foo <( bar )> /»
 
 =item C<(?(?{condition))yes-pattern|no-pattern)> becomes C«[ <?{condition}>
       yes-pattern | no-pattern ]»
@@ -822,8 +822,6 @@ TODO more rules. Use C<translate_regex.pl> from Blue Tiger in the meantime.
 
 Strict mode is now on by default.
 
-(XXX C<no strict> will work someday, but NYI?)
-
 =head4 C<warnings>
 
 Warnings are now on by default.
@@ -833,7 +831,7 @@ Warnings are now on by default.
 =head4 C<autodie>
 
 The functions which were altered by C<autodie> to throw exceptions on
-error, now throw exceptions by default.
+error, now throw exceptions by default unless you test the return value explicitly.
 
     # Perl 5
     open my $i_fh, '<', $input_path;  # Fails silently on error
@@ -861,7 +859,10 @@ C<is> keyword, in the class declaration.
 
 No longer relevant.
 
-Perl 6 now transparently upgrades Int Num Rat to their Big versions as needed.
+C<Int> is now arbitrary precision, as is the numerator of C<Rat> (the
+denominator is limited to C<2**64>, after which it will automatically
+upgrade to C<Num> to preserve performance).  If you want a C<Rat> with
+an arbitrary-precision denominator, C<FatRat> is available.
 
 =head4 C<constant>
 
@@ -981,7 +982,7 @@ Gone.
 The Perl 6 design allows for automatic transparent saving-and-loading of
 compiled bytecode.
 
-No Perl 6 compiler supports it yet.
+Rakudo supports this only for modules so far.
 
 
 

lib/Language/variables.pod

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Although they may not be changed at runtime, the user is allowed to
     constant $?TABSTOP = 4; # this causes leading tabs in a heredoc or in a POD
                             # block's virtual margin to be counted as 4 spaces.
 
-For a list of these special variables see L<Compile-time variables>.
+For a list of these special variables see L<#Compile-time variables>.
 
 =head2 The C<.> Twigil