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authorArtur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com>2002-06-09 15:44:37 +0000
committerArtur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com>2002-06-09 15:44:37 +0000
commitcd0db8e5f038869374e1184e3ec8e8051da9057a (patch)
treed9d4ecb713aeff2c91e04b30fc2ba7e4e92eeffc
parent4ebc451bd0ba36823aced89b266c63cb608ab0c7 (diff)
downloadperl-cd0db8e5f038869374e1184e3ec8e8051da9057a.tar.gz
Follow up on changing keyword to special subroutine.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17135
-rw-r--r--pod/perlmod.pod4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlmod.pod b/pod/perlmod.pod
index 029f41b111..d3b087caad 100644
--- a/pod/perlmod.pod
+++ b/pod/perlmod.pod
@@ -488,8 +488,8 @@ Ithreads work by cloning the data tree so that no data is shared
between different threads. These threads can be used using the threads
module or by doing fork() on win32 (fake fork() support). When a
thread is cloned all Perl data is cloned, however non-Perl data cannot
-be cloned automatically. Perl after 5.7.2 has support for the
-C<CLONE> keyword. In C<CLONE> you can do whatever you need to do,
+be cloned automatically. Perl after 5.7.2 has support for the C<CLONE>
+special subroutine . In C<CLONE> you can do whatever you need to do,
like for example handle the cloning of non-Perl data, if necessary.
C<CLONE> will be executed once for every package that has it defined
(or inherits it). It will be called in the context of the new thread,