Author: lwall Date: 2009-01-26 20:11:42 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) New Revision: 25044
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] clarify that .perl always represents an object as an item Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod =================================================================== --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2009-01-26 16:12:14 UTC (rev 25043) +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2009-01-26 19:11:42 UTC (rev 25044) @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 8 Jan 2009 + Last Modified: 26 Jan 2009 Number: 2 - Version: 148 + Version: 149 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -1413,7 +1413,12 @@ Like the C<Data::Dumper> module in Perl 5, the C<.perl> method will put quotes around strings, square brackets around list values, curlies around hash values, constructors around objects, etc., so that Perl can evaluate -the result back to the same object. +the result back to the same object. The C<.perl> method will return +a representation of the object on the assumption that, if the code is +reparsed at some point, it will be used to regenerate the object as a +scalar in item context. If you wish to interpolate the regenerated +object in a list context, it may be necessary to use C<<prefix:<|> >> +to force interpolation. =item *
