Add a deprecation warning for all uses of @*, %*, &* and **.

All compile-time uses of the ** typeglob now warn.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 1a17400034..68f070f5a1 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -192,7 +192,12 @@ XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
 
 =item *
 
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
+L%c* is deprecated, and will become a syntax error|perldiag/"%c* is deprecated, and will become a syntax error">
+
+Use of C<@*>, C<&*>, C<**> or C<%*> is now deprecated, and will generate a
+compile time warning, enabled by default.  In future such code will fail to
+compile with a syntax error.  Removing these variables, along with C<$*>,
+will permit future syntax additions.
 
 =back
 
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 069e1aab71..17d13ceaaa 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2618,6 +2618,13 @@ modifiers.  You can enable C</m> for a lexical scope (even a whole file)
 with C<use re '/m'>.  (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value
 then all regular expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.)
 
+=item %c* is deprecated, and will become a syntax error
+
+(D deprecated, syntax) The punctuation variables C<@*>, C<&*>, C<**> and
+C<%*> will be removed soon.  In future such code will fail to compile with a
+syntax error.  Removing these variables along with C<$*> will permit future
+syntax additions.
+
 =item $# is no longer supported
 
 (D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$#>, deprecated in older