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 =================================================================== --- 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>