From: Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:38:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Document parsing changes for [perl #56444] patch
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Document parsing changes for [perl #56444] patch
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diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index 7a24364..ea0b07f 100644
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -2073,6 +2073,11 @@ is emitted if the C<use warnings> pragma or the B<-w> command-line flag
 Processing of C<\Q>, C<\U>, C<\u>, C<\L>, C<\l>, C<\E>,
 and interpolation happens (almost) as with C<qq//> constructs.
 
+Processing of C<\N{...}> is also done here, and compiled into an intermediate
+form for the regex compiler.  (This is because, as mentioned below, the regex
+compilation may be done at execution time, and C<\N{...}> is a compile-time
+construct.)
+
 However any other combinations of C<\> followed by a character
 are not substituted but only skipped, in order to parse them
 as regular expressions at the following step.