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diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index fe8a154c39..7169515c54 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -260,11 +260,19 @@ C<-M>I<module> executes C<use> I<module> C<;> before executing your script. You can use quotes to add extra code after the module name, e.g., C<-M'module qw(foo bar)'>. +If the first character after the C<-M> or C<-m> is a dash (C<->) +then the 'use' is replaced with 'no'. + A little built-in syntactic sugar means you can also say C<-mmodule=foo> or C<-Mmodule=foo> as a shortcut for C<-M'module qw(foo)'>. Note that using the C<=> form removes the distinction between C<-m> and C<-M>. +To avoid the need to use quotes when importing more that one symbol +with the C<=> form, the text following the C<=> is split into a list +on commas (C<,>) rather than whitespace. The actual code generated +by C<-Mmodule=foo,bar> is C<use module split(/,/,q{foo,bar})>. + =item B<-n> causes Perl to assume the following loop around your script, which |