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author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-12 15:00:42 -0800 |
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committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-12 15:00:42 -0800 |
commit | 9b03c0a2763ac65c27fbda052b034db71849f461 (patch) | |
tree | 1ee1347c155a770035c6d267e5263937be216784 | |
parent | 4dcecea45752c0731d7846d1e7c8147f6c96338f (diff) | |
download | perl-9b03c0a2763ac65c27fbda052b034db71849f461.tar.gz |
perlfaq7: there are no empty packages any more
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfaq7.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq7.pod b/pod/perlfaq7.pod index fbe6dad497..983825b904 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq7.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq7.pod @@ -831,10 +831,8 @@ diagnostics as C<Carp> does, use the C<caller> built-in: print "I was called from package $package\n"; ); -By default, your program starts in package C<main>, so you should -always be in some package unless someone uses the C<package> built-in -with no namespace. See the C<package> entry in L<perlfunc> for the -details of empty packages. +By default, your program starts in package C<main>, so you will +always be in some package. This is different from finding out the package an object is blessed into, which might not be the current package. For that, use C<blessed> |