Change 24733 allows several pointers to be NULL. Therefore this

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

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index f4e9c29..04e1b48 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ Binary "x" is the repetition operator.  In scalar context or if the left
 operand is not enclosed in parentheses, it returns a string consisting
 of the left operand repeated the number of times specified by the right
 operand.  In list context, if the left operand is enclosed in
-parentheses, it repeats the list.  If the right operand is zero or
-negative, it returns an empty string or an empty list, depending on the
-context.
+parentheses or is a list formed by C<qw/STRING/>, it repeats the list.
+If the right operand is zero or negative, it returns an empty string
+or an empty list, depending on the context.
 
     print '-' x 80;            # print row of dashes
 
@@ -1987,7 +1987,8 @@ depending on context.  This distinction is determined on syntactic
 grounds alone.  That means C<< <$x> >> is always a readline() from
 an indirect handle, but C<< <$hash{key}> >> is always a glob().
 That's because $x is a simple scalar variable, but C<$hash{key}> is
-not--it's a hash element.
+not--it's a hash element.  Even C<< <$x > >> (note the extra space)
+is treated as C<glob("$x ")>, not C<readline($x)>.
 
 One level of double-quote interpretation is done first, but you can't
 say C<< <$foo> >> because that's an indirect filehandle as explained