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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2010-09-12 10:27:36 -0600
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2010-09-25 00:47:02 -0700
commit9deebca376903e87a5f8496ce3baf418d3e9d0b7 (patch)
treeed10f4018d87c8d528db528f17ec8ac18c45c247 /lib/charnames.pm
parenta2cfe56dbcb3330a37926b668c136f00360986a0 (diff)
downloadperl-9deebca376903e87a5f8496ce3baf418d3e9d0b7.tar.gz
charnames.pm: Clarify comments
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/charnames.pm')
-rw-r--r--lib/charnames.pm12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/charnames.pm b/lib/charnames.pm
index b8d1593eca..925dccbef3 100644
--- a/lib/charnames.pm
+++ b/lib/charnames.pm
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ sub lookup_name ($;$) {
my ($name, $hints_ref) = @_;
- my $utf8;
+ my $utf8; # The string result
my $save_input;
if ($runtime) {
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ sub lookup_name ($;$) {
}
# User alias should be checked first or else can't override ours, and if we
- # add any, could conflict with theirs.
+ # were to add any, could conflict with theirs.
if (exists $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name}) {
$utf8 = $^H{charnames_ord_aliases}{$name};
}
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ sub lookup_name ($;$) {
if (! defined $utf8) {
- # See if has looked this up earlier.
+ # See if has looked this input up earlier.
if ($^H{charnames_full} && exists $full_names_cache{$name}) {
$utf8 = $full_names_cache{$name};
}
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ sub lookup_name ($;$) {
$scripts_trie = "\U\Q$1";
$name = $2;
}
- else {
+ else { # Otherwise look in allowed scripts
$scripts_trie = $^H{charnames_scripts};
}
@@ -668,8 +668,8 @@ sub lookup_name ($;$) {
sub charnames {
my $name = shift;
- # For \N{...}. Looks up the character name and returns its ordinal if
- # found, undef otherwise. If not in 'use bytes', forces into utf8
+ # For \N{...}. Looks up the character name and returns the string
+ # representation of it.
my $ord = lookup_name($name);
return if ! defined $ord;