pl/perl doc correction: subroutines

Started by Josh Berkusover 16 years ago2 messagesdocs
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#1Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com

All,

From 40.1. PL/Perl Functions and Arguments

"The use of named nested subroutines is dangerous in Perl, especially if
they refer to lexical variables in the enclosing scope. Because a
PL/Perl function is wrapped in a subroutine, any named subroutine you
create will be nested. In general, it is far safer to create anonymous
subroutines which you call via a coderef. See the perldiag man page for
more details."

The reference to the "perldiag" doc is confusing because it's a
dictionary of errors. We need to be specific about what part of the page:

"See "Variable %s Will Not Stay Shared" and "Variable %s is not
available" in the perldiag man page for more details."

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#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: pl/perl doc correction: subroutines

On fre, 2009-08-07 at 18:00 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

The reference to the "perldiag" doc is confusing because it's a
dictionary of errors. We need to be specific about what part of the page:

"See "Variable %s Will Not Stay Shared" and "Variable %s is not
available" in the perldiag man page for more details."

Fixed.