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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-03-07 16:36:07 -0800
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-03-07 16:36:07 -0800
commit44567c868fc64f460c96da246965d0089fbe4773 (patch)
treeb9440338e2f843ccc0bedc6cb779f78146ee7b61
parent5af88345d9b73adc26765854070a07f429ae112d (diff)
downloadperl-44567c868fc64f460c96da246965d0089fbe4773.tar.gz
perlvar: Document ${^WARNING_BITS} better
Don’t refer people to warnings.pm for more information, as it contains no more information about this variable. Explain the scoping and also mention that the values are considered internal.
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 3ae354ce08..f7dbfbbc28 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1622,7 +1622,9 @@ Mnemonic: related to the B<-w> switch.
X<${^WARNING_BITS}>
The current set of warning checks enabled by the C<use warnings> pragma.
-See the documentation of C<warnings> for more details.
+It has the same scoping as the C<$^H> and C<%^H> variables. The exact
+values are considered internal to the L<warnings> pragma and may change
+between versions of Perl.
This variable was added in Perl 5.10.