optional warning on join(/foo/...) (reworked suggested patch

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldelta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index a228530..cf97559 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -725,6 +725,13 @@ of a subroutine attribute, and it wasn't a semicolon or the start of a
 block.  Perhaps you terminated the parameter list of the previous attribute
 too soon.
 
+=item /%s/ should probably be written as "%s"
+
+(W) You have used a pattern where Perl expected to find a string,
+like in the first argument to C<join>.  Perl will treat the true
+or false result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string,
+which is probably not what you had in mind.
+
 =head1 Obsolete Diagnostics
 
 Todo.