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The perldelta example code has a ($) prototype, but the change is about the (*) prototype.
>From b206249dbc038bb4dcf35c341482988a55d48c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Bell <madc...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:32:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix change description has incorrect proto
The incompatible change deals with the (*) proto
---
pod/perl5214delta.pod | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pod/perl5214delta.pod b/pod/perl5214delta.pod
index 866a12b..67876ff 100644
--- a/pod/perl5214delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5214delta.pod
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ exhibited buggy behaviour.
Now it has been changed, so subroutines always take precedence over barewords,
which brings it into conformity with similarly prototyped built-in functions:
- sub splat($) { ... }
+ sub splat(*) { ... }
sub foo { ... }
splat(foo); # now always splat(foo())
splat(bar); # still splat('bar') as before
--
2.0.0
Doug Bell
madc...@gmail.com