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authorSteffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>2009-09-02 18:45:23 +0200
committerSteffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>2009-09-02 18:45:23 +0200
commit25209816f53a8d9986b7b64f9d3cf1004452aacc (patch)
treee2be101e6c237f4161fc990b69a260f0fe9524ea
parente3c0ad970ebd69ea25e9ecd3835c43fcf2d80b0a (diff)
downloadperl-25209816f53a8d9986b7b64f9d3cf1004452aacc.tar.gz
Deprecate exceptions.pl with a warning
-rw-r--r--lib/exceptions.pl8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/exceptions.pl b/lib/exceptions.pl
index ed1f927d27..8c77a07827 100644
--- a/lib/exceptions.pl
+++ b/lib/exceptions.pl
@@ -3,11 +3,15 @@
#
# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
#
# In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
# programming techniques.
-#
-#
+
+warn( "The 'exceptions.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+ . " removed in the next major release of perl." );
+
# Here's a little code I use for exception handling. It's really just
# glorfied eval/die. The way to use use it is when you might otherwise
# exit, use &throw to raise an exception. The first enclosing &catch