# phpman > perldoc > Sub::Name

## NAME
    [Sub::Name](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Sub%3A%3AName/markdown) - (Re)name a sub

## VERSION
    version 0.26

## SYNOPSIS
        use [Sub::Name](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Sub%3A%3AName/markdown);

        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](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Sub%3A%3AIdentify/markdown) - for getting information about subs

    *   [Sub::Util](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Sub%3A%3AUtil/markdown) - set_subname is another implementation of "subname"

## SUPPORT
    Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker
    <<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sub-Name>> (or <bug-Sub-Name@rt.cpan.org>
    <mailto:<bug-Sub-Name@rt.cpan.org>>).

    There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#toolchain" on
    "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#toolchain>.

## AUTHOR
    Matthijs van Duin <<xmath@cpan.org>>

## CONTRIBUTORS
    *   Karen Etheridge <<ether@cpan.org>>

    *   Graham Knop <<haarg@haarg.org>>

    *   Leon Timmermans <<fawaka@gmail.com>>

    *   Reini Urban <<rurban@cpan.org>>

    *   Florian Ragwitz <<rafl@debian.org>>

    *   Matthijs van Duin <<xmath-no-spam@nospam.cpan.org>>

    *   Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <<ilmari@ilmari.org>>

    *   gfx <<gfuji@cpan.org>>

    *   Aristotle Pagaltzis <<pagaltzis@gmx.de>>

    *   J.R. Mash <<jmash.code@gmail.com>>

    *   Alexander Bluhm <<alexander.bluhm@gmx.net>>

## 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.