From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:10:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: , Re: [PATCH again] Re: [PATCH mg.c gv.c and others] ${^TAINT}
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, Re: [PATCH again] Re: [PATCH mg.c gv.c and others] ${^TAINT}
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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12384
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diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index 968588d..e4932a5 100644
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -87,10 +87,11 @@ that returns a reference to the appropriate type.  For a description
 of this, see L<perlref>.
 
 Names that start with a digit may contain only more digits.  Names
-that do not start with a letter, underscore, or digit are limited to
-one character, e.g.,  C<$%> or C<$$>.  (Most of these one character names
-have a predefined significance to Perl.  For instance, C<$$> is the
-current process id.)
+that do not start with a letter, underscore, digit or a caret (i.e.
+a control character) are limited to one character, e.g.,  C<$%> or
+C<$$>.  (Most of these one character names have a predefined
+significance to Perl.  For instance, C<$$> is the current process
+id.)
 
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