Note that the shell's test uses eq etc for numbers, = etc for

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

diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod
index d8f667c..0ad0086 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltrap.pod
+++ b/pod/perltrap.pod
@@ -267,6 +267,13 @@ The arguments are available via @ARGV, not $1, $2, etc.
 The environment is not automatically made available as separate scalar
 variables.
 
+=item *
+
+The shell's C<test> uses "=", "!=", "<" etc for string comparisons and "-eq",
+"-ne", "-lt" etc for numeric comparisons. This is the reverse of Perl, which
+uses C<eq>, C<ne>, C<lt> for string comparisons, and C<==>, C<!=> C<< < >> etc
+for numeric comparisons.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Perl Traps