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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2009-09-14 14:41:10 +0200
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2009-09-14 14:42:13 +0200
commita96d018829db6d60ab7d14d2ba51db878e944ddd (patch)
tree03a355aa371f7b7f135750fefb16336ac9ecff39 /pod
parent8c8273e3a8fb69fa8e9d9bca975ed4c97278ca5d (diff)
downloadperl-a96d018829db6d60ab7d14d2ba51db878e944ddd.tar.gz
Doc nit in perlfunc for die() and warn() with an empty message
[perl #69126] warn "eats" leading unded values as if nonexistent
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfunc.pod6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 776aaf25ef..08c406c0cd 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -1275,14 +1275,14 @@ produce, respectively
See also exit(), warn(), and the Carp module.
-If LIST is empty and C<$@> already contains a value (typically from a
+If the output is empty and C<$@> already contains a value (typically from a
previous eval) that value is reused after appending C<"\t...propagated">.
This is useful for propagating exceptions:
eval { ... };
die unless $@ =~ /Expected exception/;
-If LIST is empty and C<$@> contains an object reference that has a
+If the output is empty and C<$@> contains an object reference that has a
C<PROPAGATE> method, that method will be called with additional file
and line number parameters. The return value replaces the value in
C<$@>. i.e. as if C<< $@ = eval { $@->PROPAGATE(__FILE__, __LINE__) }; >>
@@ -7392,7 +7392,7 @@ Prints the value of LIST to STDERR. If the last element of LIST does
not end in a newline, it appends the same file/line number text as C<die>
does.
-If LIST is empty and C<$@> already contains a value (typically from a
+If the output is empty and C<$@> already contains a value (typically from a
previous eval) that value is used after appending C<"\t...caught">
to C<$@>. This is useful for staying almost, but not entirely similar to
C<die>.