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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-09-24 05:21:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-09-24 05:21:19 +0000 |
| commit | 4810e5ece3e68c794a2f5f4b442ae6ee99d4998f (patch) | |
| tree | 0021659ffe788dc406b41f6f46aa5a26b4628dad /pod | |
| parent | 8ac04967afa079525f14b42d77496f34f82a67de (diff) | |
| download | perl-4810e5ece3e68c794a2f5f4b442ae6ee99d4998f.tar.gz | |
grandfather deprecated "$$<digit>" no more
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1866
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 7f635354dd..0e37c4dfff 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -2778,18 +2778,6 @@ a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". -=item Use of "$$<digit>" to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated - -(D) Perl versions before 5.004 misinterpreted any type marker followed -by "$" and a digit. For example, "$$0" was incorrectly taken to mean -"${$}0" instead of "${$0}". This bug is (mostly) fixed in Perl 5.004. - -However, the developers of Perl 5.004 could not fix this bug completely, -because at least two widely-used modules depend on the old meaning of -"$$0" in a string. So Perl 5.004 still interprets "$$<digit>" in the -old (broken) way inside strings; but it generates this message as a -warning. And in Perl 5.005, this special treatment will cease. - =item Use of $# is deprecated (D) This was an ill-advised attempt to emulate a poorly defined B<awk> feature. |