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| author | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2023-02-09 11:40:13 +1100 |
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| committer | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2023-02-14 09:48:50 +1100 |
| commit | 50cde84302b646dead90d9ffd682f6dec7308231 (patch) | |
| tree | 13641cc9a5aab8f65b431ad49b9f60d29672eca6 /pod/perlmod.pod | |
| parent | da1109f0215f6f9222bd7415808d028e54c09a57 (diff) | |
| download | perl-50cde84302b646dead90d9ffd682f6dec7308231.tar.gz | |
document deprecation of ' as the package separator
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diff --git a/pod/perlmod.pod b/pod/perlmod.pod index 5c68273820..fa18872e6c 100644 --- a/pod/perlmod.pod +++ b/pod/perlmod.pod @@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ the $s variable in package C<owner>, which is probably not what you meant. Use braces to disambiguate, as in C<"This is ${owner}'s house">. X<::> X<'> +Using C<'> as a package separator is deprecated and will be removed in +Perl 5.40. + Packages may themselves contain package separators, as in C<$OUTER::INNER::var>. This implies nothing about the order of name lookups, however. There are no relative packages: all symbols |