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| author | Iain Spoon Truskett <perl@dellah.anu.edu.au> | 2003-02-14 21:12:00 +1100 |
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| committer | hv <hv@crypt.org> | 2003-02-15 06:32:35 +0000 |
| commit | fa05a9fd14fa1e936b4708399d5cb3873024a775 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e83efa9f72faa5547937297ce232d90351bcf72 /pod/perlvar.pod | |
| parent | 24aef97f7fec4668a5731fc6d5179ebebd43f183 (diff) | |
| download | perl-fa05a9fd14fa1e936b4708399d5cb3873024a775.tar.gz | |
Re: perlvar phrasing clarification for $^S
From: "Iain 'Spoon' Truskett" <perl@dellah.anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <20030213231200.GE16300@ouroboros.anu.edu.au>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18706
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlvar.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 7621be0c0d..7af33eb151 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1091,9 +1091,15 @@ regular expression assertion (see L<perlre>). May be written to. =item $^S -Current state of the interpreter. Undefined if parsing of the current -module/eval is not finished (may happen in $SIG{__DIE__} and -$SIG{__WARN__} handlers). True if inside an eval(), otherwise false. +Current state of the interpreter. + + $^S State + --------- ------------------- + undef Parsing module/eval + true (1) Executing an eval + false (0) Otherwise + +The first state may happen in $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} handlers. =item $BASETIME |