From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 01:42:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: perlvar.pod addition
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perlvar.pod addition
From: Peter Gessner <peter.gessner@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:23:12 +0200
Message-ID: <3B0EA310.B265C048@post.rwth-aachen.de>

Subject: Re: perlvar.pod addition
From: "Abigail" <abigail@foad.org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:00:39 +0200
Message-ID: <20010525200039.28029.qmail@foad.org>

Mention $a and $b in perlvar.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10305
---

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index cd61068..da06055 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -111,6 +111,19 @@ test.  Outside a C<while> test, this will not happen.
 
 =over 8
 
+=item $a
+
+=item $b
+
+Special package variables when using sort(), see L<perlfunc/sort>.
+Because of this specialness $a and $b don't need to be declared
+(using local(), use vars, or our()) even when using the strict
+vars pragma.
+
+=back
+
+=over 8
+
 =item $<I<digits>>
 
 Contains the subpattern from the corresponding set of capturing