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| author | Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com> | 2000-08-03 17:22:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-04 12:26:33 +0000 |
| commit | 90fdbbb75512007b809510f03fc507ff5c145e16 (patch) | |
| tree | 49ec382ac772ca6ab35d1efbd12fadd4a242db02 /pod/perlcall.pod | |
| parent | 9300ef0fea165be49d88144848cf782932f9cfb9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-90fdbbb75512007b809510f03fc507ff5c145e16.tar.gz | |
Re: Array vs. List context
Message-ID: <20000804002244.A5924@ilmd.chetlin.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6522
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlcall.pod b/pod/perlcall.pod index 148b24b51b..94edd342f4 100644 --- a/pod/perlcall.pod +++ b/pod/perlcall.pod @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ As with G_SCALAR, this flag has 2 effects: =item 1. -It indicates to the subroutine being called that it is executing in an -array context (if it executes I<wantarray> the result will be true). +It indicates to the subroutine being called that it is executing in a +list context (if it executes I<wantarray> the result will be true). =item 2. @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ use of this flag. As mentioned above, you can determine the context of the currently executing subroutine in Perl with I<wantarray>. The equivalent test can be made in C by using the C<GIMME_V> macro, which returns -C<G_ARRAY> if you have been called in an array context, C<G_SCALAR> if +C<G_ARRAY> if you have been called in a list context, C<G_SCALAR> if in a scalar context, or C<G_VOID> if in a void context (i.e. the return value will not be used). An older version of this macro is called C<GIMME>; in a void context it returns C<G_SCALAR> instead of @@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ Notes =item 1. -We wanted array context, so G_ARRAY was used. +We wanted list context, so G_ARRAY was used. =item 2. |