From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:25:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A small precision in the docs for overloaded regexp escapes
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A small precision in the docs for overloaded regexp escapes
(see bug #33906)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23945
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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index f0d7645..bc5e7c9 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -1282,6 +1282,8 @@ this:
 
     sub invalid { die "/$_[0]/: invalid escape '\\$_[1]'"}
 
+    # We must also take care of not escaping the legitimate \\Y|
+    # sequence, hence the presence of '\\' in the conversion rules.
     my %rules = ( '\\' => '\\\\', 
 		  'Y|' => qr/(?=\S)(?<!\S)|(?!\S)(?<=\S)/ );
     sub convert {