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in reply to Re^2: Understanding Split and Join
in thread Understanding Split and Join

Looks like a case to be fixed either in the docs or in the code of the Perl interpreter itself
I'm not sure what you mean by "fixed"? split doesn't have the special logic for // that match and substitution do, but even those operations don't have special logic for / /x, / # /x or / (?#)/x.