From e6b875612d942c1d2fd6aca3940bbb169c237703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 13:15:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] perlop: Clarify empty pattern section not valid for qr//

Fixes GH #23410
---
 pod/perlop.pod | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index a1d19b1a6970..a04ee7b6d042 100644
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -2272,6 +2272,8 @@ The bottom line is that using C</o> is almost never a good idea.
 
 =item The empty pattern C<//>
 
+(This subsection applies to C<//> and C<m//>, but not to C<qr//>.)
+
 If the I<PATTERN> evaluates to the empty string, the last
 I<successfully> matched regular expression in the current dynamic
 scope is used instead (see also L<perlvar/Scoping Rules of Regex Variables>).