New separations for the pattern match operator documentation,

suggested by David Nicol:

Subject: It's wafer thin!
From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <934f64a20805091114y40595f9ap9d355b39f20779c1@mail.gmail.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33852

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index 1827757..7cac1de 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -1151,6 +1151,8 @@ the life of the script.  However, mentioning C</o> constitutes a promise
 that you won't change the variables in the pattern.  If you change them,
 Perl won't even notice.  See also L<"qr/STRING/msixpo">.
 
+=item The empty pattern //
+
 If the PATTERN evaluates to the empty string, the last
 I<successfully> matched regular expression is used instead. In this
 case, only the C<g> and C<c> flags on the empty pattern is honoured -
@@ -1167,6 +1169,8 @@ will assume you meant defined-or.  If you meant the empty regex, just
 use parentheses or spaces to disambiguate, or even prefix the empty
 regex with an C<m> (so C<//> becomes C<m//>).
 
+=item Matching in list context
+
 If the C</g> option is not used, C<m//> in list context returns a
 list consisting of the subexpressions matched by the parentheses in the
 pattern, i.e., (C<$1>, C<$2>, C<$3>...).  (Note that here C<$1> etc. are
@@ -1213,6 +1217,8 @@ search position to the beginning of the string, but you can avoid that
 by adding the C</c> modifier (e.g. C<m//gc>).  Modifying the target
 string also resets the search position.
 
+=item \G assertion
+
 You can intermix C<m//g> matches with C<m/\G.../g>, where C<\G> is a
 zero-width assertion that matches the exact position where the previous
 C<m//g>, if any, left off.  Without the C</g> modifier, the C<\G> assertion