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| author | Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com> | 2021-06-11 16:02:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2021-07-24 18:16:16 -0700 |
| commit | d2e37f76ef9bd3b769f74d663aa25e902d78cfa1 (patch) | |
| tree | d4e997782aed95f0d735c5027bf8fcbdaf271098 /pod | |
| parent | 86b9c84e9605ca4d897aa14a0e9eee1c831f2ed6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d2e37f76ef9bd3b769f74d663aa25e902d78cfa1.tar.gz | |
perlop - Invocant only needs to be an object or class name for method calls
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlop.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index f07c6bc6f1..2a49aba337 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -230,8 +230,9 @@ assignment.) See L<perlreftut> and L<perlref>. Otherwise, the right side is a method name or a simple scalar variable containing either the method name or a subroutine reference, -and the left side must be either an object (a blessed reference) -or a class name (that is, a package name). See L<perlobj>. +and (if it is a method name) the left side must be either an object (a +blessed reference) or a class name (that is, a package name). See +L<perlobj>. The dereferencing cases (as opposed to method-calling cases) are somewhat extended by the C<postderef> feature. For the |