Don't autovivify stashes as soon as the lexer sees them.

This makes defined %foo::bar:: work again.
Add tests for it, remove note in perldelta about having broken it.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@26370

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perl593delta.pod b/pod/perl593delta.pod
index 1c0a8fb756..9ebc819865 100644
--- a/pod/perl593delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl593delta.pod
@@ -15,16 +15,6 @@ L<perl592delta> for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.2.
 C<_> is now forced to be a bareword after a filetest operator. This solves
 a number of misparsing issues when a global C<_> subroutine is defined.
 
-=head2 C<defined %foo::bar::>
-
-This used to report whether the C<foo::bar> package was created. Now it's
-always true, as a side-effect of a change to shrink the internal size of
-hash structures. Note that using C<defined> on hashes was deprecated
-anyway. To achieve the same result, you can use a symbolic reference
-instead (and this is backwards-compatible):
-
-    defined %{"foo::bar::"}
-
 =head1 Core Enhancements
 
 =head1 Modules and Pragmata