perlfunc and perldelta updates about caller().

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16683

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 52de7fd324..d5873a4e5d 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -554,11 +554,13 @@ C<$is_require> are set: C<$is_require> is true if the frame is created by a
 C<require> or C<use> statement, $evaltext contains the text of the
 C<eval EXPR> statement.  In particular, for an C<eval BLOCK> statement,
 $filename is C<(eval)>, but $evaltext is undefined.  (Note also that
-each C<use> statement creates a C<require> frame inside an C<eval EXPR>)
-frame.  C<$hasargs> is true if a new instance of C<@_> was set up for the
-frame.  C<$hints> and C<$bitmask> contain pragmatic hints that the caller
-was compiled with.  The C<$hints> and C<$bitmask> values are subject to
-change between versions of Perl, and are not meant for external use.
+each C<use> statement creates a C<require> frame inside an C<eval EXPR>
+frame.)  $subroutine may also be C<(unknown)> if this particular
+subroutine happens to have been deleted from the symbol table.
+C<$hasargs> is true if a new instance of C<@_> was set up for the frame.
+C<$hints> and C<$bitmask> contain pragmatic hints that the caller was
+compiled with.  The C<$hints> and C<$bitmask> values are subject to change
+between versions of Perl, and are not meant for external use.
 
 Furthermore, when called from within the DB package, caller returns more
 detailed information: it sets the list variable C<@DB::args> to be the