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| author | Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com> | 2019-03-18 18:29:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-12-18 18:47:54 -0700 |
| commit | 758600332df6396bd902fa4a761230f89664ecb8 (patch) | |
| tree | ec7f21e878ccd0111ac90922d4dbaa05fb08ae49 | |
| parent | 135c152c04369d49cad1146e7f7635ef3c11bd4c (diff) | |
| download | perl-758600332df6396bd902fa4a761230f89664ecb8.tar.gz | |
perlfunc: link to "Plain Old Comments" section of perlsyn from __FILE__, __LINE__, and caller
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 81cf8099ac..af47dc2025 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -947,6 +947,10 @@ list context, caller returns # 0 1 2 my ($package, $filename, $line) = caller; +Like L<C<__FILE__>|/__FILE__> and L<C<__LINE__>|/__LINE__>, the filename and +line number returned here may be altered by the mechanism described at +L<perlsyn/"Plain Old Comments (Not!)">. + With EXPR, it returns some extra information that the debugger uses to print a stack trace. The value of EXPR indicates how many call frames to go back before the current one. @@ -2701,6 +2705,8 @@ X<__FILE__> =for Pod::Functions the name of the current source file A special token that returns the name of the file in which it occurs. +It can be altered by the mechanism described at +L<perlsyn/"Plain Old Comments (Not!)">. =item fileno FILEHANDLE X<fileno> @@ -3955,6 +3961,8 @@ X<__LINE__> =for Pod::Functions the current source line number A special token that compiles to the current line number. +It can be altered by the mechanism described at +L<perlsyn/"Plain Old Comments (Not!)">. =item link OLDFILE,NEWFILE X<link> |