7 Sub::Name - (re)name a sub
17 subname $name, $subref;
19 $subref = subname foo => sub { ... };
23 This module has only one function, which is also exported by default:
25 =for stopwords subname
27 =head2 subname NAME, CODEREF
29 Assigns a new name to referenced sub. If package specification is omitted in
30 the name, then the current package is used. The return value is the sub.
32 The name is only used for informative routines (caller, Carp, etc). You won't
33 be able to actually invoke the sub by the given name. To allow that, you need
34 to do glob-assignment yourself.
36 Note that for anonymous closures (subs that reference lexicals declared outside
37 the sub itself) you can name each instance of the closure differently, which
38 can be very useful for debugging.
46 L<Sub::Identify> - for getting information about subs
50 L<Sub::Util> - set_subname is another implementation of C<subname>
58 Matthijs van Duin <xmath@cpan.org>
62 =for stopwords Karen Etheridge Florian Ragwitz Matthijs van Duin Reini Urban Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker gfx J.R. Mash
68 Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
72 Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
76 Matthijs van Duin <xmath-no-spam@nospam.cpan.org>
80 Reini Urban <rurban@cpanel.net>
84 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
92 J.R. Mash <jmash.code@gmail.com>
96 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
98 This software is copyright (c) 2004, 2008 by Matthijs van Duin, all rights reserved;
99 copyright (c) 2014 cPanel Inc., all rights reserved.
101 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
102 it under the same terms as Perl itself.