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| author | Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> | 2009-09-02 20:02:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> | 2009-09-02 20:02:43 +0200 |
| commit | e3bc9a019bd78cd61d9a06334c3811f179cdb825 (patch) | |
| tree | d85800a3518897692d564423922796a22b42e2f3 /lib | |
| parent | 6e37324645975f18db83d3aaf3f6de4b7b064969 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e3bc9a019bd78cd61d9a06334c3811f179cdb825.tar.gz | |
Deprecate getopt.pl with a warning
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/getopt.pl | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/getopt.pl b/lib/getopt.pl index 77d8d899a4..be393c4ac7 100644 --- a/lib/getopt.pl +++ b/lib/getopt.pl @@ -2,12 +2,18 @@ # # 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. # # Suggested alternatives: Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std -# + +warn( "The 'getopt.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be" + . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the" + . " Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std modules instead." ); + ;# Process single-character switches with switch clustering. Pass one argument ;# which is a string containing all switches that take an argument. For each ;# switch found, sets $opt_x (where x is the switch name) to the value of the |