From e7ea3e70155d0bea30720ba41eb6bb6742aac0d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:26:32 +1200
Subject: patch for LWP 5.05 to make it play with both 5.003 and 5.003_20 +
 overload patch

---
 pod/perlre.pod | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'pod/perlre.pod')

diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index a4c0a7d9de..cb3ce032d0 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -175,7 +175,11 @@ just like "^" and "$" except that they won't match multiple times when the
 C</m> modifier is used, while "^" and "$" will match at every internal line
 boundary.  To match the actual end of the string, not ignoring newline,
 you can use C<\Z(?!\n)>.  The C<\G> assertion can be used to mix global
-matches (using C<m//g>) and non-global ones, as described in L<perlop>.
+matches (using C<m//g>) and non-global ones, as described in 
+L<perlop/"Regexp Quote-Like Operators">.
+It is also useful when writing C<lex>-like scanners, when you have several
+regexps which you want to match against consequent substrings of your
+string, see the previous reference.
 The actual location where C<\G> will match can also be influenced
 by using C<pos()> as an lvalue.  See L<perlfunc/pos>.
 
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