From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:18:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document 'lvalue' attribute (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
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document 'lvalue' attribute (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)

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diff --git a/lib/attributes.pm b/lib/attributes.pm
index bbbb8b7..f111645 100644
--- a/lib/attributes.pm
+++ b/lib/attributes.pm
@@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ This has a meaning when taken together with the B<locked> attribute,
 as described there.  It also means that a subroutine so marked
 will not trigger the "Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s" warning.
 
+=item lvalue
+
+Indicates that the referenced subroutine is a valid lvalue and can
+be assigned to. The subroutine must return a modifiable value such
+as a scalar variable, as described in L<perlsub>.
+
 =back
 
 There are no built-in attributes for anything other than subroutines.