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authorGisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>2002-05-05 15:50:23 -0700
committerAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>2002-05-06 09:40:42 +0000
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PerlIO::Via reference
Message-Id: <lrd6w925b4.fsf_-_@caliper.activestate.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16425
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diff --git a/pod/perliol.pod b/pod/perliol.pod
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@@ -754,10 +754,14 @@ of I<$scalar>, and writes change the value. In both cases the position
in I<$scalar> starts as zero but can be altered via C<seek>, and
determined via C<tell>.
-=item ":Object" or ":Perl"
+=item ":Via"
-May be provided to allow layers to be implemented as perl code -
-implementation is being investigated.
+Provided to allow layers to be implemented as Perl code. For instance:
+
+ use MIME::QuotedPrint;
+ open(my $fh, ">Via(MIME::QuotedPrint)", "qp");
+
+See L<PerlIO::Via> for details.
=back