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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2011-12-14 21:43:38 -0800
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2011-12-15 16:15:31 -0800
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perlvar: document what $[ will do under use v5.16
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@@ -2103,6 +2103,10 @@ block. Now it is always lexically scoped.
As of Perl 5.16, it is implemented by the L<arybase> module. See
L<arybase> for more details on its behaviour.
+Under C<use v5.16>, or C<no feature "array_base">, C<$[> no longer has any
+effect, and always contains 0. Assigning 0 to it is permitted, but any
+other value will produce an error.
+
Mnemonic: [ begins subscripts.
Deprecated in Perl 5.12.