diff --git a/man7/glob.7 b/man7/glob.7
index 41c582ce0..4314a45d8 100644
--- a/man7/glob.7
+++ b/man7/glob.7
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Globbing is applied on each of the components of a pathname
 separately.
 A \(aq/\(aq in a pathname cannot be matched by a \(aq?\(aq or \(aq*\(aq
 wildcard, or by a range like "\fI[.\-0]\fP".
-A range cannot contain an
-explicit \(aq/\(aq character; this would lead to a syntax error.
+A range containing an explicit \(aq/\(aq character is syntactically incorrect.
+(POSIX requires that syntactically incorrect patterns are left unchanged.)
 
 If a filename starts with a \(aq.\(aq,
 this character must be matched explicitly.