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authorAaron Crane <arc@cpan.org>2017-01-07 15:32:46 +0000
committerAaron Crane <arc@cpan.org>2017-01-07 15:40:31 +0000
commitb5282d7c6d096c123db5832035c2b9969da8c2bc (patch)
tree7f47846583d5417f616e4d5980938665384320d7 /intrpvar.h
parentc15a80f398efa48dcd0a125bb000b60c14a387b9 (diff)
downloadperl-b5282d7c6d096c123db5832035c2b9969da8c2bc.tar.gz
Improve perlintern.pod docs for PL_dowarn
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diff --git a/intrpvar.h b/intrpvar.h
index cd89ecd395..d203855314 100644
--- a/intrpvar.h
+++ b/intrpvar.h
@@ -98,9 +98,11 @@ PERLVAR(I, in_eval, U8) /* trap "fatal" errors? */
PERLVAR(I, defgv, GV *) /* the *_ glob */
/*
-=for apidoc mn|bool|PL_dowarn
+=for apidoc mn|U8|PL_dowarn
-The C variable which corresponds to Perl's C<$^W> warning variable.
+The C variable that roughly corresponds to Perl's C<$^W> warning variable.
+However, C<$^W> is treated as a boolean, whereas C<PL_dowarn> is a
+collection of flag bits.
=cut
*/