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authorAbigail <abigail@abigail.be>2012-03-26 17:02:57 +0200
committerAbigail <abigail@abigail.be>2012-03-26 17:02:57 +0200
commit826b3747f7551c014141c503741687c6723cbdfc (patch)
tree4d88b0c3f2967ca2de9df76ed50a61a31fb8a7b8
parente9cdc2f57a393dfa227f9e0b3f08f0bbdb2421b5 (diff)
parent3258103348843907aaaabd5ce638d44c6ab5ecfa (diff)
downloadperl-826b3747f7551c014141c503741687c6723cbdfc.tar.gz
Merge branch 'abigail/for-5.17' into blead
-rw-r--r--pod/perlop.pod5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index 1cb186a7a7..2152f13a5b 100644
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -2544,8 +2544,9 @@ for closing C<]> paired with the opening C<[>, combinations of C<\\>, C<\]>,
and C<\[> are all skipped, and nested C<[> and C<]> are skipped as well.
However, when backslashes are used as the delimiters (like C<qq\\> and
C<tr\\\>), nothing is skipped.
-During the search for the end, backslashes that escape delimiters
-are removed (exactly speaking, they are not copied to the safe location).
+During the search for the end, backslashes that escape delimiters or
+backslashes are removed (exactly speaking, they are not copied to the
+safe location).
For constructs with three-part delimiters (C<s///>, C<y///>, and
C<tr///>), the search is repeated once more.