Author: lwall
Date: 2010-02-13 21:17:46 +0100 (Sat, 13 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 29715
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
Log:
[S02] clarify that anon allows a name but doesn't install it for jnthn++
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
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--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2010-02-13 19:52:30 UTC (rev 29714)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2010-02-13 20:17:46 UTC (rev 29715)
@@ -1718,6 +1718,12 @@
equivalent to a C<my> declaration inside the block of the function,
except that such parameters default to readonly.
+The C<anon> declarator allows a declaration to provide a name that
+can be used in error messages, but that doesn't put into any symbol table:
+
+ my $secret = anon sub marine () {...}
+ $secret(42) # too many arguments to sub marine
+
=item *
Sigils are now invariant. C<$> always means a scalar variable, C<@>
