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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2010-04-29 17:13:42 +0200
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2010-04-29 17:13:42 +0200
commit167906a2243c13315495ab3464bc4dda6d445818 (patch)
tree0ffda66b58b3ac9f3c9abcebe46e7b5cc63d0b0b
parent6d72cea07e141ecf607ab0546300c437af9cb85e (diff)
downloadperl-167906a2243c13315495ab3464bc4dda6d445818.tar.gz
Mention that Safe::reval() no wraps returned coderefs
-rw-r--r--dist/Safe/Safe.pm6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/dist/Safe/Safe.pm b/dist/Safe/Safe.pm
index 20efe17eb3..34659e6b8a 100644
--- a/dist/Safe/Safe.pm
+++ b/dist/Safe/Safe.pm
@@ -651,9 +651,9 @@ expression evaluated, or a return statement may be used, just as with
subroutines and B<eval()>. The context (list or scalar) is determined
by the caller as usual.
-This behaviour differs from the beta distribution of the Safe extension
-where earlier versions of perl made it hard to mimic the return
-behaviour of the eval() command and the context was always scalar.
+If the return value of reval() is (or contains) any code reference,
+those code references are wrapped to be themselves executed always
+in the compartment. See L</wrap_code_refs_within>.
The formerly undocumented STRICT argument sets strictness: if true
'use strict;' is used, otherwise it uses 'no strict;'. B<Note>: if