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| author | Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> | 1997-04-25 04:16:44 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-04-27 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | dd2afc7eca335b517bec81ce70a8a5a1c86b9c11 (patch) | |
| tree | 040e60dca6a7dc230ceaca816c7abaeb3786f9b8 | |
| parent | f102b8834494e736221c17057fae0f964511ea18 (diff) | |
| download | perl-dd2afc7eca335b517bec81ce70a8a5a1c86b9c11.tar.gz | |
Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 178812dcfe..930773ca02 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -190,6 +190,19 @@ It is now possible to build Perl with AT&T's sfio IO package instead of stdio. See L<perlapio> for more details, and the F<INSTALL> file for how to use it. +=head2 New and changed builtin constants + +=over + +=item __PACKAGE__ + +The current package name at compile time, or the undefined value if +there is no current package (due to a C<package;> directive). Like +C<__FILE__> and C<__LINE__>, C<__PACKAGE__> does I<not> interpolate +into strings. + +=back + =head2 New and changed builtin variables =over |