From: Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:51:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Make it clear what it means if there's no distinction between -M and -m.
X-Git-Tag: upstream/5.20.0~615
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c2d9228f2ebd4faf3f1605e7adb5d962d6366bbd;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

Make it clear what it means if there's no distinction between -M and -m.

Triggered by perl #121078, where someone thought one could mimic the
behaviour of C<-m> by a clever use of C<-M> and C<=>.
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diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index 1feecb0..b545881 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -671,7 +671,8 @@ B<-mI<MODULE>=foo,bar> or B<-MI<MODULE>=foo,bar> as a shortcut for
 B<'-MI<MODULE> qw(foo bar)'>.  This avoids the need to use quotes when
 importing symbols.  The actual code generated by B<-MI<MODULE>=foo,bar> is
 C<use module split(/,/,q{foo,bar})>.  Note that the C<=> form
-removes the distinction between B<-m> and B<-M>.
+removes the distinction between B<-m> and B<-M>; that is,
+B<-mI<MODULE>=foo,bar> is the same as B<-MI<MODULE>=foo,bar>.
 
 A consequence of this is that B<-MI<MODULE>=number> never does a version check,
 unless C<I<MODULE>::import()> itself is set up to do a version check, which