Changeset 19300 for docs

Timestamp:

01/02/08 01:26:09 (12 months ago)

Author:

lwall

Message:

Clarification of substr requested by Gothmog++ and pmurias++

Files:

• docs/Perl6/Spec/Functions.pod (modified) (3 diffs)

docs/Perl6/Spec/Functions.pod

@@ -13 +13 @@
                 Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
  Date:          12 Mar 2005
- Last Modified: 16 Mar 2007
- Version:       14
+ Last Modified: 1 Jan 2008
+ Version:       15
 
 This document attempts to document the list of builtin functions in Perl 6.
@@ -1357 +1357 @@
  our Str multi method substr (Str $string: StrPos $start, StrLen $length?) is rw is export
  our Str multi method substr (Str $string: StrPos $start, StrPos $end?) is rw is export
+ our Str multi method substr (Str $string: StrPos $start, Int $length) is rw is export
 
 C<substr> returns part of an existing string. You control what part by
@@ -1362 +1363 @@
 If you pass a number as either the position or length, then it will be used
 as the start or length with the assumtion that you mean "chars" in the
-current Unicode abstraction level, which defaults to graphemes.
+current Unicode abstraction level, which defaults to graphemes.  A number
+in the 3rd argument is interpreted as a length rather than a position (just
+as in Perl 5).
 
 Here is an example of its use: