PATTERN may contain variables, which will be interpolated (and the
pattern recompiled) every time the pattern search is evaluated, except
-for when the delimiter is a single quote. (Note that C<$)> and C<$|>
-might not be interpolated because they look like end-of-string tests.)
+for when the delimiter is a single quote. (Note that C<$(>, C<$)>, and
+C<$|> are not interpolated because they look like end-of-string tests.)
If you want such a pattern to be compiled only once, add a C</o> after
the trailing delimiter. This avoids expensive run-time recompilations,
and is useful when the value you are interpolating won't change over
its own pair of quotes, which may or may not be bracketing quotes,
e.g., C<tr[A-Z][a-z]> or C<tr(+\-*/)/ABCD/>.
+Note that C<tr> does B<not> do regular expression character classes
+such as C<\d> or C<[:lower:]>. The <tr> operator is not equivalent to
+the tr(1) utility. If you want to map strings between lower/upper
+cases, see L<perlfunc/lc> and L<perlfunc/uc>, and in general consider
+using the C<s> operator if you need regular expressions.
+
Note also that the whole range idea is rather unportable between
character sets--and even within character sets they may cause results
you probably didn't expect. A sound principle is to use only ranges
starting a new list. All values must be read before it will start
over. In list context, this isn't important because you automatically
get them all anyway. However, in scalar context the operator returns
-the next value each time it's called, or C
+the next value each time it's called, or C<undef> when the list has
run out. As with filehandle reads, an automatic C<defined> is
generated when the glob occurs in the test part of a C<while>,
because legal glob returns (e.g. a file called F<0>) would otherwise
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