Re: [perl #60592] [TODO] change :lexid into :subid.

[email protected] ("Patrick R. Michaud") Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:52:34 -0600

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:38:11AM -0500, Will Coleda wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure whether it was *just* a rename... ISTR there was also
> > something to do with a look-up of names. Pm knows more about it :-)
> > (admittedly, the topic is not well-defined then.)
> > kjs
> 
> The note in the PDD indicated it was just a rename; If there's some
> other change that needs doing, we can open a new ticket.

The other change that needs doing is RT #60590.  This will cause

    .const 'Sub' $P0 = 'xyz'

to look up subroutines by :subid instead of subroutine name.
(If a subroutine doesn't specify a :subid flag, then its name is
its subid.)

Pm