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minor grammar/punctuation tweaks
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@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ registers it in some internal symbol table. This internal symbol table is used
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to detect undeclared variables, and to tie the code generation for the
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variable to the correct scope.
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At run time, a variable appears as an entry in a I<lexical pad>, short
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I<lexpad>. This is a per-scope data structure that stores a pointer for each
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At run time, a variable appears as an entry in a I<lexical pad>, or I<lexpad>
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for short. This is a per-scope data structure that stores a pointer for each
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variable.
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In the case of C<my $x>, the lexpad entry for the variable C<$x> is a pointer
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say @a; # 42 2 3
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If you've read and understood the previous explanations, it is now time to
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wonder how this can possibly work. After all binding to a variable requires a
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wonder how this can possibly work. After all, binding to a variable requires a
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lexpad entry for that variable, and while there is one for an array, there
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aren't lexpad entries for each array element (you cannot expand the lexpad at
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run time).

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