[ViewVC] Diff of: cvs/cvsroot/Coro/Coro.pm

Comparing cvsroot/Coro/Coro.pm (file contents):
Revision 1.276 by root, Wed Apr 14 01:56:02 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.280 by root, Thu Nov 11 15:07:16 2010 UTC

 our $idle;    # idle handler
 our $main;    # main coro
 our $current; # current coro
-our $VERSION = 5.22;
+our $VERSION = 5.25;
 our @EXPORT = qw(async async_pool cede schedule terminate current unblock_sub rouse_cb rouse_wait);
 our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
       prio => [qw(PRIO_MAX PRIO_HIGH PRIO_NORMAL PRIO_LOW PRIO_IDLE PRIO_MIN)],
 );
 Sets (or gets in case the argument is missing) the description for this
 coro. This is just a free-form string you can associate with a
 coro.
 This method simply sets the C<< $coro->{desc} >> member to the given
-string. You can modify this member directly if you wish.
+string. You can modify this member directly if you wish, and in fact, this
+is often preferred to indicate major processing states that cna then be
+seen for example in a L<Coro::Debug> session:
+   sub my_long_function {
+      local $Coro::current->{desc} = "now in my_long_function";
+      ...
+      $Coro::current->{desc} = "my_long_function: phase 1";
+      ...
+      $Coro::current->{desc} = "my_long_function: phase 2";
+      ...
+   }
 =cut
 sub desc {
    my $old = $_[0]{desc};

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