Clarify that => doesn't quote compound identifiers.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19698

diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index f60d016..0191a93 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -587,8 +587,9 @@ key/value pairs.  That's why it's good to use references sometimes.
 It is often more readable to use the C<< => >> operator between key/value
 pairs.  The C<< => >> operator is mostly just a more visually distinctive
 synonym for a comma, but it also arranges for its left-hand operand to be
-interpreted as a string--if it's a bareword that would be a legal identifier.
-This makes it nice for initializing hashes:
+interpreted as a string -- if it's a bareword that would be a legal simple
+identifier (C<< => >> doesn't quote compound identifiers, that contain
+double colons). This makes it nice for initializing hashes:
 
     %map = (
                  red   => 0x00f,