Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-methods will be fatal in 5.28.

Which will be 21 years after it was deprecated (5.004).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 5af8827338..b32ce8e1cb 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,8 @@ Perl_gv_autoload_pvn(pTHX_ HV *stash, const char *name, STRLEN len, U32 flags)
     )
 	Perl_ck_warner_d(aTHX_ packWARN(WARN_DEPRECATED),
 			 "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %" SVf
-			 "::%" UTF8f "() is deprecated",
+			 "::%" UTF8f "() is deprecated. This will be "
+                         "fatal in Perl 5.28",
 			 SVfARG(packname),
                          UTF8fARG(is_utf8, len, name));