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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-10-19 10:27:20 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-10-19 10:27:20 +0000
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Adjust documentation for previous change
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29049
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@@ -1101,8 +1101,9 @@ follows:
A semicolon (C<;>) separates mandatory arguments from optional arguments.
It is redundant before C<@> or C<%>, which gobble up everything else.
-As the last character of a prototype, you can use C<_> in place of C<$>:
-if this argument is not provided, C<$_> will be used instead.
+As the last character of a prototype, or just before a semicolon, you can
+use C<_> in place of C<$>: if this argument is not provided, C<$_> will be
+used instead.
Note how the last three examples in the table above are treated
specially by the parser. C<mygrep()> is parsed as a true list