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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-05-22 13:47:19 +0000 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-05-22 13:47:19 +0000 |
commit | 46e5f5f47696caa998bfcb1e374d29f888f44b9b (patch) | |
tree | 451fd5089107090f5e2363629e68ea506664fa39 /pod | |
parent | dc8f638738195a8f1d6774aa5a9874607346c798 (diff) | |
download | perl-46e5f5f47696caa998bfcb1e374d29f888f44b9b.tar.gz |
More nits in perlpragma, and remove the warning about %^H being
strictly internal in perlvar.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28271
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlpragma.pod | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlpragma.pod b/pod/perlpragma.pod index 9c4fd2b082..3bdf8b79aa 100644 --- a/pod/perlpragma.pod +++ b/pod/perlpragma.pod @@ -115,12 +115,14 @@ and C<no myint;> is Hence the C<import> and C<unimport> routines are called at B<compile time> for the user's code. -User pragmata store their state by writing to C<%^H>, hence these two -routines manipulate C<%^H>. The state information in C<%^H> is stored in the -optree, and can be retrieved at runtime with C<caller>, at index 10 of the -list of returned results. In the example pragma, retrieval is encapsulated -into the routine C<in_effect()>. This uses C<caller(0)> to determine the -state of C<$^H{myint}> when each line of the user's script was called, and +User pragmata store their state by writing to the magical hash C<%^H>, +hence these two routines manipulate it. The state information in C<%^H> is +stored in the optree, and can be retrieved at runtime with C<caller>, at +index 10 of the list of returned results. In the example pragma, retrieval +is encapsulated into the routine C<in_effect()>, which takes as parameter +the number of call frames to go up to find the value of the pragma in the +user's script. This uses C<caller()> to determine the value of +C<$^H{myint}> when each line of the user's script was called, and therefore provide the correct semantics in the subroutine implementing the overloaded addition. diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 855227486b..68c8303aea 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -995,11 +995,8 @@ version of the same lexical pragma: =item %^H -WARNING: This variable is strictly for internal use only. Its availability, -behavior, and contents are subject to change without notice. - The %^H hash provides the same scoping semantic as $^H. This makes it -useful for implementation of lexically scoped pragmas. +useful for implementation of lexically scoped pragmas. See L<perlpragma>. =item $INPLACE_EDIT |