Closer to the truth.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17140

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index b173cdd..3f4d676 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3110,7 +3110,9 @@ to have its own copy of the global.)  Examples:
     our $VERSION : unique = "1.00";
 
 Note that this attribute also has the effect of making the global
-readonly when the first new interpreter is cloned.
+readonly in the main interpreter after the first new interpreter
+has been cloned (for example, after the first new thread has been
+created).
 
 Multi-interpreter environments can come to being either through the
 fork() emulation on Windows platforms, or by embedding perl in a