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diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
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@@ -611,9 +611,11 @@ library for your script to use.
- test_have_prereq <prereq>
- Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with
- test_set_prereq. The most common use of this directly is to skip
- all the tests if we don't have some essential prerequisite:
+ Check if we have a prerequisite previously set with test_set_prereq.
+ The most common way to use this explicitly (as opposed to the
+ implicit use when an argument is passed to test_expect_*) is to skip
+ all the tests at the start of the test script if we don't have some
+ essential prerequisite:
if ! test_have_prereq PERL
then