Remove the warning "v-string in require/use non portable"

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32910

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 1dd79a3af0..29d3cd6e02 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -4935,18 +4935,6 @@ the version number.
 (W misc) The version string contains invalid characters at the end, which
 are being ignored.
 
-=item v-string in use/require is non-portable
-
-(W portable) The use of v-strings is non-portable to older, pre-5.6, Perls.
-If you want your scripts to be backward portable, use the floating
-point version number: for example, instead of C<use 5.6.1> say
-C<use 5.006_001>. This of course won't make older Perls suddenly start
-understanding newer features, but at least they will show a sensible
-error message indicating the required minimum version.
-
-This warning is suppressed if the C<use 5.x.y> is preceded by a
-C<use 5.006> (see C<use VERSION> in L<perlfunc/use>).
-
 =item Warning: something's wrong
 
 (W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 49eb72921d..3456d9a92a 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -6873,22 +6873,16 @@ of perl older than the specified one.
 
 Specifying VERSION as a literal of the form v5.6.1 should generally be
 avoided, because it leads to misleading error messages under earlier
-versions of Perl that do not support this syntax.  The equivalent numeric
-version should be used instead.
-
-Alternatively, you can use a numeric version C<use 5.006> followed by a
-v-string version like C<use v5.10.1>, to avoid the unintuitive C<use
-5.010_001>. (older perl versions fail gracefully at the first C<use>,
-later perl versions understand the v-string syntax in the second).
+versions of Perl (that is, prior to 5.6.0) that do not support this
+syntax.  The equivalent numeric version should be used instead.
 
     use v5.6.1;		# compile time version check
     use 5.6.1;		# ditto
     use 5.006_001;	# ditto; preferred for backwards compatibility
-    use 5.006; use 5.6.1;	# ditto, for compatibility and readability
 
 This is often useful if you need to check the current Perl version before
-C<use>ing library modules that have changed in incompatible ways from
-older versions of Perl.  (We try not to do this more than we have to.)
+C<use>ing library modules that won't work with older versions of Perl.
+(We try not to do this more than we have to.)
 
 Also, if the specified perl version is greater than or equal to 5.9.5,
 C<use VERSION> will also load the C<feature> pragma and enable all