document qw's whitespace rules

[perl5.git] / pod / perlop.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index 410085f..b3f77d6 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -2346,7 +2346,8 @@ equivalent to:
 
     split(" ", q/STRING/);
 
 
     split(" ", q/STRING/);
 

-the differences being that it generates a real list at compile time, and
+the differences being that it only splits on ASCII whitespace,
+generates a real list at compile time, and

 in scalar context it returns the last element in the list.  So
 this expression:
 
 in scalar context it returns the last element in the list.  So
 this expression: