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diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index f0b5d1d..57fc772 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -1707,7 +1707,7 @@ it matches I<any> byte 0-255.  So
 The last regexp matches, but is dangerous because the string
 I<character> position is no longer synchronized to the string I<byte>
 position.  This generates the warning 'Malformed UTF-8
-character'.  C<\C> is best used for matching the binary data in strings
+character'.  The C<\C> is best used for matching the binary data in strings
 with binary data intermixed with Unicode characters.
 
 Let us now discuss the rest of the character classes.  Just as with
@@ -2004,6 +2004,10 @@ They evaluate true if the regexps do I<not> match:
     $x =~ /foo(?!baz)/;  # matches, 'baz' doesn't follow 'foo'
     $x =~ /(?<!\s)foo/;  # matches, there is no \s before 'foo'
 
+The C<\C> is unsupported in lookbehind, because the already
+treacherous definition of C<\C> would become even more so
+when going backwards.
+
 =head2 Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
 
 The last few extended patterns in this tutorial are experimental as of