integrate mainline changes

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

diff --git a/pod/perlsyn.pod b/pod/perlsyn.pod
index 0dd842d..1f3ae50 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlsyn.pod
+++ b/pod/perlsyn.pod
@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ If the LABEL is omitted, the loop control statement
 refers to the innermost enclosing loop.  This may include dynamically
 looking back your call-stack at run time to find the LABEL.  Such
 desperate behavior triggers a warning if you use the B<-w> flag.
+Unlike a C<foreach> statement, a C<while> statement never implicitly
+localises any variables.
 
 If there is a C<continue> BLOCK, it is always executed just before the
 conditional is about to be evaluated again, just like the third part of a