From: Mark-Jason Dominus Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:22:06 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Re: DOC PATCH (5.005_54 perlsub.pod) X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4536e65df88825e8caa0a99c75b5c7283dc3c2ec;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: DOC PATCH (5.005_54 perlsub.pod) Message-ID: <19990116222206.3674.qmail@plover.com> p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2785 --- diff --git a/pod/perlsub.pod b/pod/perlsub.pod index 95fbb6b..6f9bb7fc 100644 --- a/pod/perlsub.pod +++ b/pod/perlsub.pod @@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ if you call it like a builtin function, then it behaves like a builtin function. If you call it like an old-fashioned subroutine, then it behaves like an old-fashioned subroutine. It naturally falls out from this rule that prototypes have no influence on subroutine references -like C<\&foo> or on indirect subroutine calls like C<&{$subref}>. +like C<\&foo> or on indirect subroutine calls like C<&{$subref}> or +C<$subref-E()>. Method calls are not influenced by prototypes either, because the function to be called is indeterminate at compile time, because it depends