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🏷️ NAME

Sub::Name — (Re)name a sub

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Rename an existing subroutine reference	subname $name, $subref	Assigns a new informative name to $subref for debugging and stack traces
Rename an anonymous subroutine	$subref = subname foo => sub { ... }	Creates a named reference to a closure; useful for differentiating closures in traces

📦 VERSION

version 0.26

📋 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"

🆘 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 AT rt.org <mailto:bug-Sub-Name AT rt.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 AT cpan.org>

👥 CONTRIBUTORS

• Karen Etheridge <ether AT cpan.org>
• Graham Knop <haarg AT haarg.org>
• Leon Timmermans <fawaka AT gmail.com>
• Reini Urban <rurban AT cpan.org>
• Florian Ragwitz <rafl AT debian.org>
• Matthijs van Duin <xmath-no-spam AT nospam.org>
• Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari AT ilmari.org>
• gfx <gfuji AT cpan.org>
• Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis AT gmx.de>
• J.R. Mash <jmash.code AT gmail.com>
• Alexander Bluhm <alexander.bluhm AT 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.

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