The first big import towards 5.8.1, @18078. Please do NOT

[perl5.git] / pod / perltie.pod

diff --git a/pod/perltie.pod b/pod/perltie.pod
index adc557d..72288a0 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltie.pod
+++ b/pod/perltie.pod
@@ -258,7 +258,9 @@ index whose value we're trying to fetch.
 
 If a negative array index is used to read from an array, the index
 will be translated to a positive one internally by calling FETCHSIZE
-before being passed to FETCH.
+before being passed to FETCH.  You may disable this feature by
+assigning a true value to the variable C<$NEGATIVE_INDICES> in the
+tied array class.
 
 As you may have noticed, the name of the FETCH method (et al.) is the same
 for all accesses, even though the constructors differ in names (TIESCALAR