From: Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 09:37:56 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Suggestion for mnemonic for $^N
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Suggestion for mnemonic for $^N
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index d70f22d..817f1e5 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -193,7 +193,10 @@ This variable is read-only and dynamically scoped to the current BLOCK.
 
 The text matched by the used group most-recently closed (i.e. the group
 with the rightmost closing parenthesis) of the last successful search
-pattern. This is primarly used inside C<(?{...})> blocks for examining text
+pattern.  (Mnemonic: the (possibly) Nested parenthesis that most
+recently closed.)
+
+This is primarly used inside C<(?{...})> blocks for examining text
 recently matched. For example, to effectively capture text to a variable
 (in addition to C<$1>, C<$2>, etc.), replace C<(...)> with