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| author | Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> | 2016-11-14 19:08:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> | 2017-01-16 19:18:11 +0100 |
| commit | a0e213fcb5aa6690f639123c7aedb590e790907b (patch) | |
| tree | 8726bcc75004041a1af95835c3fb7ec3a7422697 /pod/perldeprecation.pod | |
| parent | c4d8d6a210eeb43ce8a86793561fb5c56d47f482 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a0e213fcb5aa6690f639123c7aedb590e790907b.tar.gz | |
Actively deprecate File::Glob::glob().
This function has been deprecated since 5.8. However, no deprecation
message was issued; only perl5.008delta.pod and a comment in the file
mention its deprecation.
This patch issues a deprecation message, and warns the user it will
be gone in perl 5.30. Since all this method does is calling
File::Glob::bsd_glob anyway, code calling this is easily fixed.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldeprecation.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldeprecation.pod | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldeprecation.pod b/pod/perldeprecation.pod index 931933fe0e..c9e75f9c08 100644 --- a/pod/perldeprecation.pod +++ b/pod/perldeprecation.pod @@ -14,6 +14,22 @@ features are available. The deprecated features will be grouped by the version of Perl in which they will be removed. +=head2 Perl 5.30 + +=head3 C<< File::Glob::glob() >> will disappear + +C<< File::Glob >> has a function called C<< glob >>, which just calls +C<< bsd_glob >>. However, its prototype is different from the prototype +of C<< CORE::glob >>, and hence, C<< File::Glob::glob >> should not +be used. + +C<< File::Glob::glob() >> was deprecated in perl 5.8.0. A deprecation +message was issued from perl 5.26.0 onwards, and the function will +disappear in perl 5.30.0. + +Code using C<< File::Glob::glob() >> should call +C<< File::Glob::bsd_glob() >> instead. + =head2 Perl 5.24 =head3 Use of C<< *glob{FILEHANDLE} >> |