Sub::Name(3pm)                 User Contributed Perl Documentation                 Sub::Name(3pm)



NAME
       Sub::Name - (re)name a sub

VERSION
       version 0.12

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
       ·   Sub::Identify - for getting information about subs

       ·   Sub::Util - set_subname is another implementation of "subname"

AUTHOR
       Matthijs van Duin <xmath AT cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS
       ·   Karen Etheridge <ether AT cpan.org>

       ·   Florian Ragwitz <rafl AT debian.org>

       ·   Matthijs van Duin <xmath-no-spam AT nospam.org>

       ·   Reini Urban <rurban AT cpanel.net>

       ·   Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaaker <ilmari AT ilmari.org>

       ·   gfx <gfuji AT cpan.org>

       ·   J.R. Mash <jmash.code AT gmail.com>

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.



perl v5.20.1                                2014-09-04                             Sub::Name(3pm)