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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-05-28 06:39:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-05-28 06:39:53 +0000 |
| commit | c9d5ac959cdfa7a668b3bfbbc2b56923c316ef43 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e4852c2cfd7989934271082cbe99ae944741cae /pod/perlintern.pod | |
| parent | 9983fa3c886b6f0a857997142e62341929a9b601 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c9d5ac959cdfa7a668b3bfbbc2b56923c316ef43.tar.gz | |
change#2879 broke rvalue autovivification of magicals such as ${$num}
(reworked variant of patch suggested by Simon Cozens)
p4raw-link: @2879 on //depot/perl: 35cd451c5a1303394968903750cc3b3a1a6bc892
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6126
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlintern.pod')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlintern.pod b/pod/perlintern.pod index b0aab33e2b..6d8d67dae0 100644 --- a/pod/perlintern.pod +++ b/pod/perlintern.pod @@ -12,6 +12,18 @@ B<they are not for use in extensions>! =over 8 +=item is_gv_magical + +Returns C<TRUE> if given the name of a magical GV. + +Currently only useful internally when determining if a GV should be +created even in rvalue contexts. + +C<flags> is not used at present but available for future extension to +allow selecting particular classes of magical variable. + + bool is_gv_magical(char *name, STRLEN len, U32 flags) + =back =head1 AUTHORS |