Re^3: Understanding arguments to subroutines

I think you can explain it without a change to the documentaiton, and B::Deparse supports that:

> perl -MO=Deparse -e "print for -verbose => 2"
print $_ foreach (-'verbose', 2);
-e syntax OK
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... and the unary minus, when applied to a string, returns "-", prepended to that string, as documented in perlop for Symbolic Unary Operators.

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Re^4: Understanding arguments to subroutines by toolic (Bishop) on May 14, 2012 at 14:52 UTC
Agreed. Thanks for the link to the "-" doc.	[reply]