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Author: larry Date: Wed Jul 16 23:26:04 2008 New Revision: 14565 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: clarification suggested by Bob Rogers++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Wed Jul 16 23:26:04 2008 @@ -1276,8 +1276,8 @@ symbol tables visible at compile time, this binds to the compile-time view of the lexical scopes. (At run-time, the initial run-time view of these scopes is copied from the compiler's view of them, so that -initializations carry over, for instance.) At run time, whenever such -a subroutine needs to be cloned, an additional C<:=> binding is done +initializations carry over, for instance.) At run time, when such +a subroutine is cloned, an additional C<:=> binding is done at clone time to the same symbol table entry that the original C<::=> was bound to. (The binding is not restored on exit from the current lexical scope; this C<:=> binding records the I<last> cloning, not