From 9f6ecbda77f5a7341a63a319d357f1c1994f233e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:26:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] perlreapi.pod: Update RXf_SPLIT section

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

diff --git a/pod/perlreapi.pod b/pod/perlreapi.pod
index 6d34185..edcf9bb 100644
--- a/pod/perlreapi.pod
+++ b/pod/perlreapi.pod
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ Additional flags:
 
 =item RXf_SPLIT
 
+This flag was removed in perl 5.18.0.  C<split ' '> is now special-cased
+solely in the parser.  RXf_SPLIT is still #defined, so you can test for it.
+This is how it used to work:
+
 If C<split> is invoked as C<split ' '> or with no arguments (which
 really means C<split(' ', $_)>, see L<split|perlfunc/split>), Perl will
 set this flag. The regex engine can then check for it and set the
-- 
1.8.3.1