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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlsub.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlsub.pod b/pod/perlsub.pod index ef5a3c5fa2..3a5357392c 100644 --- a/pod/perlsub.pod +++ b/pod/perlsub.pod @@ -864,8 +864,10 @@ unbackslashed C<@> or C<%> eats all the rest of the arguments, and forces list context. An argument represented by C<$> forces scalar context. An C<&> requires an anonymous subroutine, which, if passed as the first argument, does not require the "C<sub>" keyword or a subsequent comma. A -C<*> does whatever it has to do to turn the argument into a reference to a -symbol table entry. +C<*> allows the subroutine to accept a bareword, constant, scalar expression, +typeglob, or a reference to a typeglob in that slot. The value will be +available to the subroutine either as a simple scalar, or (in the latter +two cases) as a reference to the typeglob. A semicolon separates mandatory arguments from optional arguments. (It is redundant before C<@> or C<%>.) |