Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> On 24/02/10 21:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm. Jeff found some relevant material on perlref. Should that link be
>> added? Should the link(s) be more specific than telling you to read the
>> whole d*mn man page? Neither of those pages are short, and each contains
>> a wealth of material that isn't related to this issue.
> Hmm - perhaps a suggestion to google for "perl nested named subroutine".
> That seems to give a set of relevant results. Includes perldiag,
> perlref, our mailing lists and Apache's mod_perl (which makes sense).
Seems like a reasonable idea to me --- any objections? We should
probably say "search" not "google" but otherwise seems like a fine
solution.
(BTW, I notice that one of the earlier hits is Andrew's suggestion to
add the existing paragraph to our docs ;))
regards, tom lane