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authorFelipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com>2021-05-20 10:22:07 -0400
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2021-05-31 07:11:04 -0600
commite6f2f64a464f83abbdbf00ebc19f68846766ac58 (patch)
tree2e32050a6b2f98f05ff373a85472288e416f6451 /lib
parent8a2e41ffbc376a86586e2b42daa43293299622c5 (diff)
downloadperl-e6f2f64a464f83abbdbf00ebc19f68846766ac58.tar.gz
Clarify descriptions of unicode_eval and evalbytes.
Issue #18801
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/feature.pm4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/feature.pm b/lib/feature.pm
index a1953e292e..cdffa6839b 100644
--- a/lib/feature.pm
+++ b/lib/feature.pm
@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ couldn't be changed without breaking some things that had come to rely on
them, so the feature can be enabled and disabled. Details are at
L<perlfunc/Under the "unicode_eval" feature>.
-C<evalbytes> is like string C<eval>, but operating on a byte stream that is
-not UTF-8 encoded. Details are at L<perlfunc/evalbytes EXPR>. Without a
+C<evalbytes> is like string C<eval>, but it treats its argument as a byte
+string. Details are at L<perlfunc/evalbytes EXPR>. Without a
S<C<use feature 'evalbytes'>> nor a S<C<use v5.16>> (or higher) declaration in
the current scope, you can still access it by instead writing
C<CORE::evalbytes>.