Re: perlvar phrasing clarification for $^S

From: "Iain 'Spoon' Truskett" <perl@dellah.anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <20030213231200.GE16300@ouroboros.anu.edu.au>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18706

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 7621be0..7af33eb 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1091,9 +1091,15 @@ regular expression assertion (see L<perlre>).  May be written to.
 
 =item $^S
 
-Current state of the interpreter.  Undefined if parsing of the current
-module/eval is not finished (may happen in $SIG{__DIE__} and
-$SIG{__WARN__} handlers).  True if inside an eval(), otherwise false.
+Current state of the interpreter.
+
+    $^S         State
+    ---------   -------------------
+    undef       Parsing module/eval
+    true (1)    Executing an eval
+    false (0)   Otherwise
+
+The first state may happen in $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} handlers.
 
 =item $BASETIME