Amend documentation of shift operators in perlop.pod. #22861
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The perlop.pod documentation for "Shift Operators" implied that "all bits would fall off" if the size of the bit-shift was greater than the bitsize of the integer.
AFAICT, "all bits fall off" if the size of the bit-shift is greater than or equal to the bitsize of the integer.
So I've made that correction.
There was also some waffle about what C does. I've reduced that to the pre-existing statement
This is unlike in C, where shifting by too many bits is undefined.
because I think the rest is irrelevant.And there was also the incorrect statement:
which I've changed to: