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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2001-10-10 00:10:26 +0200
committerArtur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com>2001-10-09 19:16:11 +0000
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, Re: [PATCH again] Re: [PATCH mg.c gv.c and others] ${^TAINT}
Message-ID: <20011009221026.A8579@rafael> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12384
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diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
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@@ -87,10 +87,11 @@ that returns a reference to the appropriate type. For a description
of this, see L<perlref>.
Names that start with a digit may contain only more digits. Names
-that do not start with a letter, underscore, or digit are limited to
-one character, e.g., C<$%> or C<$$>. (Most of these one character names
-have a predefined significance to Perl. For instance, C<$$> is the
-current process id.)
+that do not start with a letter, underscore, digit or a caret (i.e.
+a control character) are limited to one character, e.g., C<$%> or
+C<$$>. (Most of these one character names have a predefined
+significance to Perl. For instance, C<$$> is the current process
+id.)
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