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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-08-09 11:33:09 -0600 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2010-08-11 10:12:24 +0200 |
| commit | 1ab74a365b82041836fa170e530bacfbba923642 (patch) | |
| tree | 758f94e09d53af3bc0886b1de20fa0c905dfdfd0 /pod | |
| parent | 9e58f51e306d2839abe5d9920cddf5d59e5d6520 (diff) | |
| download | perl-1ab74a365b82041836fa170e530bacfbba923642.tar.gz | |
perlglossary: Add defn for "code point"
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diff --git a/pod/perlglossary.pod b/pod/perlglossary.pod index 9f0f646458..268792f9b7 100644 --- a/pod/perlglossary.pod +++ b/pod/perlglossary.pod @@ -545,6 +545,17 @@ A system that writes code for you in a low-level language, such as code to implement the backend of a compiler. See L</program generator>. +=item code point + +The position of a character in a character set encoding. The character +C<NULL> is almost certainly at the zeroth position in all character +sets, so it's code point is 0. The code point for the C<SPACE> +character in the ASCII character set is 0x20, or 32 decimal; in EBCDIC +it is 0x40, or 64 decimal. The L<ord|perlfunc/ord> function returns +the code point of a character. + +"code position" and "ordinal" mean the same thing as "code point". + =item code subpattern A L</regular expression> subpattern whose real purpose is to execute @@ -2114,6 +2125,10 @@ L</pragma>. See either L<switches|/switch> or L</regular expression modifier>. +=item ordinal + +Another name for L</code point> + =item overloading Giving additional meanings to a symbol or construct. Actually, all |