From e1817ab9e1b3103a20f0236757fcabee412a82f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:56:12 -0700
Subject: perldata: Document list repetition assignment

---
 pod/perldata.pod | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'pod/perldata.pod')

diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index b0f5e7ed70..436f135050 100644
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -718,6 +718,10 @@ function:
 
     ($dev, $ino, undef, undef, $uid, $gid) = stat($file);
 
+As of Perl 5.22, you can also use C<(undef)x2> instead of C<undef, undef>.
+(You can also do C<($x) x 2>, which is less useful, because it assigns to
+the same variable twice, clobbering the first value assigned.)
+
 List assignment in scalar context returns the number of elements
 produced by the expression on the right side of the assignment:
 
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