1Sub::Name(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         Sub::Name(3)
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NAME

6       Sub::Name - (re)name a sub
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Sub::Name;
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11           subname $name, $subref;
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13           $subref = subname foo => sub { ... };
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DESCRIPTION

16       This module has only one function, which is also exported by default:
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18   subname NAME, CODEREF
19       Assigns a new name to referenced sub.  If package specification is
20       omitted in the name, then the current package is used.  The return
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23       The name is only used for informative routines (caller, Carp, etc).
24       You won't be able to actually invoke the sub by the given name.  To
25       allow that, you need to do glob-assignment yourself.
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27       Note that for anonymous closures (subs that reference lexicals declared
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AUTHOR

32       Matthijs van Duin <xmath@cpan.org>
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34       Copyright (C) 2004, 2008  Matthijs van Duin.  All rights reserved.
35       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
36       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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