Author: larry Date: Tue Jan 22 18:07:38 2008 New Revision: 14495 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log: Clarify that START is allowed to use parameter values on first call while INIT is not. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Tue Jan 22 18:07:38 2008 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 7 Dec 2007 + Last Modified: 22 Jan 2008 Number: 4 - Version: 62 + Version: 63 This document summarizes Apocalypse 4, which covers the block and statement syntax of Perl. @@ -999,6 +999,8 @@ last possible moment, then runs exactly once, and caches its value for all subsequent calls (assuming it wasn't called in void context, in which case the C<START> is evaluated once only for its side effects). +In particular, this means that C<START> can make use of any parameters +passed in on the first call, whereas C<INIT> cannot. All of these trait blocks can see any previously declared lexical variables, even if those variables have not been elaborated yet when
