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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2022-05-09 14:59:51 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2022-05-09 15:18:21 -0600 |
| commit | f3d866f274dc58d635a761b309b1a772cc32e3fd (patch) | |
| tree | 60223017c10084049d2b5bb1facb2547f5849bb0 /gv.c | |
| parent | 240d081e30013e98f9b1bcac9dd78243d42395b1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f3d866f274dc58d635a761b309b1a772cc32e3fd.tar.gz | |
perlapi: Rename GV section
In practice, like in perlguts, GVs and Stashes are lumped together, and
some API functions deal with both. So rename the section they go in.
Diffstat (limited to 'gv.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gv.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ */ /* -=head1 GV Handling +=head1 GV Handling and Stashes A GV is a structure which corresponds to to a Perl typeglob, ie *foo. It is a structure that holds a pointer to a scalar, an array, a hash etc, corresponding to $foo, @foo, %foo. @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ corresponding to $foo, @foo, %foo. GVs are usually found as values in stashes (symbol table hashes) where Perl stores its global variables. +A B<stash> is a hash that contains all variables that are defined +within a package. See L<perlguts/Stashes and Globs> + =for apidoc Ayh||GV =cut |