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-rw-r--r--pod/perlfunc.pod7
-rw-r--r--pp_hot.c2
-rw-r--r--sv.c2
-rw-r--r--thrdvar.h2
4 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 370353bb2a..d91cb04428 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -454,9 +454,10 @@ Always use the two-argument version if the function doing the blessing
might be inherited by a derived class. See L<perltoot> and L<perlobj>
for more about the blessing (and blessings) of objects.
-Creating objects in lowercased CLASSNAMEs should be avoided. Such
-namespaces should be considered reserved for Perl pragmata and objects
-that may be created to implement internal operations.
+Consider always blessing objects in CLASSNAMEs that are mixed case.
+Namespaces with all lowercase names are considered reserved for Perl
+pragmata. Builtin types have all uppercase names, so to prevent confusion,
+it is best to avoid such package names as well.
See L<perlmod/"Perl Modules">.
diff --git a/pp_hot.c b/pp_hot.c
index f9ff09dce7..9b1791df5e 100644
--- a/pp_hot.c
+++ b/pp_hot.c
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ PP(pp_qr)
djSP;
register PMOP *pm = cPMOP;
SV *rv = sv_newmortal();
- SV *sv = newSVrv(rv, "re");
+ SV *sv = newSVrv(rv, "Regexp");
sv_magic(sv,(SV*)ReREFCNT_inc(pm->op_pmregexp),'r',0,0);
RETURNX(PUSHs(rv));
}
diff --git a/sv.c b/sv.c
index 138db59881..95c75da355 100644
--- a/sv.c
+++ b/sv.c
@@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ sv_2pv(register SV *sv, STRLEN *lp)
if ( ((SvFLAGS(sv) &
(SVs_OBJECT|SVf_OK|SVs_GMG|SVs_SMG|SVs_RMG))
== (SVs_OBJECT|SVs_RMG))
- && strEQ(s=HvNAME(SvSTASH(sv)), "re")
+ && strEQ(s=HvNAME(SvSTASH(sv)), "Regexp")
&& (mg = mg_find(sv, 'r'))) {
dTHR;
regexp *re = (regexp *)mg->mg_obj;
diff --git a/thrdvar.h b/thrdvar.h
index cb39d0896d..39405e105c 100644
--- a/thrdvar.h
+++ b/thrdvar.h
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ PERLVARI(Tregcompp, regcomp_t, FUNC_NAME_TO_PTR(pregcomp))
/* Pointer to RE compiler */
PERLVARI(Tregexecp, regexec_t, FUNC_NAME_TO_PTR(regexec_flags))
/* Pointer to RE executer */
-PERLVARI(Treginterp_cnt,int, 0) /* Whether `re'
+PERLVARI(Treginterp_cnt,int, 0) /* Whether `Regexp'
was interpolated. */
PERLVARI(Treg_starttry, char *, 0) /* -Dr: where regtry was called. */
#ifdef DEBUGGING