From: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 21:27:55 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'
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Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'

Perhaps we should just document it:

p5p-msgid: hyb9snvdw.fsf@bergen.sn.no
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diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index 3734477..81efcb2 100644
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -817,6 +817,11 @@ Some frequently seen examples:
     use POSIX qw( setlocale localeconv )
     @EXPORT = qw( foo bar baz );
 
+A common mistake is to try to separate the words with comma or to put
+comments into a multi-line qw-string.  For this reason the C<-w>
+switch produce warnings if the STRING contains the "," or the "#"
+character.
+
 =item s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx
 
 Searches a string for a pattern, and if found, replaces that pattern