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| author | John Tobey <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org> | 1998-11-19 09:14:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-11-28 18:08:50 +0000 |
| commit | 19ddd453f2e40b974c6259d7b47fde33e9f744b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3713c7b43705a8b722b441ba9cc52017e432ae29 /lib/English.pm | |
| parent | df4a00a5f8fe391f745418d99ee82968fe9faa58 (diff) | |
| download | perl-19ddd453f2e40b974c6259d7b47fde33e9f744b5.tar.gz | |
PATCH: document English.pm sawampersand and thread issues
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diff --git a/lib/English.pm b/lib/English.pm index bbb6bd7b28..7aa0d84617 100644 --- a/lib/English.pm +++ b/lib/English.pm @@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables =head1 DESCRIPTION +You should I<not> use this module in programs intended to be portable +among Perl versions, programs that must perform regular expression +matching operations efficiently, or libraries intended for use with +such programs. In a sense, this module is deprecated. The reasons +for this have to do with implementation details of the Perl +interpreter which are too thorny to go into here. Perhaps someday +they will be fixed to make "C<use English>" more practical. + This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects which get triggered just by accessing them (like $0) will still |