a tweaked version of:

	Message-Id: <l03130300b1a6143078cd@[194.222.64.89]>
	Subject: Re: Misparsing s///x

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1121

diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 8fb5820..da32f87 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ just as in ordinary Perl code.  This also means that if you want real
 whitespace or C<#> characters in the pattern that you'll have to either
 escape them or encode them using octal or hex escapes.  Taken together,
 these features go a long way towards making Perl's regular expressions
-more readable.  See the C comment deletion code in L<perlop>.
+more readable.  Note that you have to be careful not to include the
+pattern delimiter in the comment--perl has no way of knowing you did
+not intend to close the pattern early.  See the C comment deletion code
+in L<perlop>.
 
 =head2 Regular Expressions