Author: lwall
Date: 2010-07-13 02:06:01 +0200 (Tue, 13 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 31652
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod
Log:
[Temporal] time is now a pseudo-constant like now, rand, etc
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod
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--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod 2010-07-12 23:59:37 UTC
(rev 31651)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod 2010-07-13 00:06:01 UTC
(rev 31652)
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
Created: 19 Mar 2009
- Last Modified: 11 July 2010
- Version: 8
+ Last Modified: 12 Jul 2010
+ Version: 9
The document is a draft.
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@
Returns the current POSIX time. Use the C<now> function for an
epoch-agnostic measure of atomic seconds (i.e., an C<Instant>).
+Note that both C<time> and C<now> are not functions, but terms
+of the pseudo-constant variety; as such they never take an argument.
+Saying C<time()> doesn't work unless you happen to have a function
+of that name defined.
=head1 C<DateTime>
