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author | Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> | 1996-02-07 12:11:21 -0500 |
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committer | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> | 1996-02-07 12:11:21 -0500 |
commit | f3cbc33408507a5467234f328be95028ae8ee3d6 (patch) | |
tree | 41a83ab469271fd8dc5bb42a73067696bd2a8cb4 /pod | |
parent | af131e482fcca9737a77b6e1e76aea95f1e07760 (diff) | |
download | perl-f3cbc33408507a5467234f328be95028ae8ee3d6.tar.gz |
tied() documentation
Here's some documentation for tied(), there doesn't seem to be any in
2b3. Also included is a small comment in the FIRSTKEY() hash example of
perltie.pod, I had to look twice when I first saw the code and I thought
others might benefit from the explanation.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index a8579106b5..7017c8f5df 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ do, import, no, package, require, use =item Keywords related to classes and object-orientedness -bless, dbmclose, dbmopen, package, ref, tie, untie, use +bless, dbmclose, dbmopen, package, ref, tie, tied, untie, use =item Low-level socket functions @@ -3024,6 +3024,13 @@ Unlike dbmopen(), the tie() function will not use or require a module for you--you need to do that explicitly yourself. See L<DB_File> or the F<Config> module for interesting tie() implementations. +=item tied VARIABLE + +Returns a reference to the object underlying VARIABLE (the same value +that was originally returned by the tie() call which bound the variable +to a package.) Returns the undefined value if VARIABLE isn't tied to a +package. + =item time Returns the number of non-leap seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, |