From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:13:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that the :unique makes the target readonly
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Clarify that the :unique makes the target readonly
when the first interpreter cloning takes place.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17138
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index c1efce7..b173cdd 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3102,15 +3102,16 @@ relied upon.
 The only currently recognized attribute is C<unique> which indicates
 that a single copy of the global is to be used by all interpreters
 should the program happen to be running in a multi-interpreter
-environment. (The default behaviour would be for each interpreter to
-have its own copy of the global.)  In such an environment, this
-attribute also has the effect of making the global readonly.
-Examples:
+environment. (The default behaviour would be for each interpreter
+to have its own copy of the global.)  Examples:
 
     our @EXPORT : unique = qw(foo);
     our %EXPORT_TAGS : unique = (bar => [qw(aa bb cc)]);
     our $VERSION : unique = "1.00";
 
+Note that this attribute also has the effect of making the global
+readonly when the first new interpreter is cloned.
+
 Multi-interpreter environments can come to being either through the
 fork() emulation on Windows platforms, or by embedding perl in a
 multi-threaded application.  The C<unique> attribute does nothing in