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authorAbigail <abigail@abigail.be>2003-10-05 22:55:21 -0700
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2003-10-06 11:49:55 +0000
commit8a2e08044eac72c17425ec10bbb958834013a72b (patch)
treefd45400973ade3d111a33c6a6c2eadeca4258566
parent678b26d7b9646dc9eb095b5ecda180cacd3ce8a1 (diff)
downloadperl-8a2e08044eac72c17425ec10bbb958834013a72b.tar.gz
ref can return false on references
Message-ID: <20031006125521.GA26446@ucan.foad.org> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21409
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfunc.pod3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 80e7f1ec80..f2e2b97e5d 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3987,7 +3987,8 @@ C<redo> work.
=item ref
-Returns a true value if EXPR is a reference, false otherwise. If EXPR
+Returns a non-empty string if EXPR is a reference, the empty
+string otherwise. If EXPR
is not specified, C<$_> will be used. The value returned depends on the
type of thing the reference is a reference to.
Builtin types include: