Sub::Name
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2018-11-03
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NAME
Sub::Name - (Re)name a sub
VERSION
version 0.21
SYNOPSIS
use Sub::Name;
subname $name, $subref;
$subref = subname foo => sub { ... };
DESCRIPTION
This module has only one function, which is also exported by default:
subname NAME, CODEREF
Assigns a new name to referenced sub. If package specification is omitted in
the name, then the current package is used. The return value is the sub.
The name is only used for informative routines (caller, Carp, etc). You won't
be able to actually invoke the sub by the given name. To allow that, you need
to do glob-assignment yourself.
Note that for anonymous closures (subs that reference lexicals declared outside
the sub itself) you can name each instance of the closure differently, which
can be very useful for debugging.
SEE ALSO
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Sub::Identify - for getting information about subs
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Sub::Util - set_subname is another implementation of "subname"
SUPPORT
Bugs may be submitted through the
RT bug tracker <
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sub-Name>
(or
bug-Sub-Name@rt.cpan.org <mailto:
bug-Sub-Name@rt.cpan.org>).
There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at
"#toolchain" on "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#toolchain>.
AUTHOR
Matthijs van Duin <
xmath@cpan.org>
CONTRIBUTORS
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Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
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Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com>
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Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
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Reini Urban <rurban@cpanel.net>
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Matthijs van Duin <xmath-no-spam@nospam.cpan.org>
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gfx <gfuji@cpan.org>
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Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
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Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>
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J.R. Mash <jmash.code@gmail.com>
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Alexander Bluhm <alexander.bluhm@gmx.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2004, 2008 by Matthijs van Duin, all rights reserved;
copyright (c) 2014 cPanel Inc., all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.