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| author | chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org> | 2006-08-31 22:42:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-09-04 12:30:36 +0000 |
| commit | ee6b43cc19efb39ed8a2fdad01d701e59dbdd946 (patch) | |
| tree | 659fe5fafaeca3d5aa50d0a0afb6a7bad07e9a33 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | e3e604253933e4879608487ff739a9cc6728084b (diff) | |
| download | perl-ee6b43cc19efb39ed8a2fdad01d701e59dbdd946.tar.gz | |
Add Index Numbers to caller() Docs
Message-Id: <200609010542.17571.chromatic@wgz.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28777
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 8107310dc9..1004837802 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -623,15 +623,19 @@ returns the caller's package name if there is a caller, that is, if we're in a subroutine or C<eval> or C<require>, and the undefined value otherwise. In list context, returns + # 0 1 2 ($package, $filename, $line) = caller; With EXPR, it returns some extra information that the debugger uses to print a stack trace. The value of EXPR indicates how many call frames to go back before the current one. + # 0 1 2 3 4 ($package, $filename, $line, $subroutine, $hasargs, + + # 5 6 7 8 9 10 $wantarray, $evaltext, $is_require, $hints, $bitmask, $hinthash) - = caller($i); + = caller($i); Here $subroutine may be C<(eval)> if the frame is not a subroutine call, but an C<eval>. In such a case additional elements $evaltext and |