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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/attributes.pm b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/attributes.pm index 5a656a69236..ebca2146085 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/attributes.pm +++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/attributes.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package attributes; -our $VERSION = 0.21; +our $VERSION = 0.23; @EXPORT_OK = qw(get reftype); @EXPORT = (); @@ -238,6 +238,19 @@ Indicates that the referenced subroutine is a method. A subroutine so marked will not trigger the "Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s" warning. +=item prototype(..) + +The "prototype" attribute is an alternate means of specifying a prototype +on a sub. The desired prototype is within the parens. + +The prototype from the attribute is assigned to the sub immediately after +the prototype from the sub, which means that if both are declared at the +same time, the traditionally defined prototype is ignored. In other words, +C<sub foo($$) : prototype(@) {}> is indistinguishable from C<sub foo(@){}>. + +If illegalproto warnings are enabled, the prototype declared inside this +attribute will be sanity checked at compile time. + =item locked The "locked" attribute is deprecated, and has no effect in 5.10.0 and later. |