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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-01-31 04:17:09 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-01-31 04:17:09 +0000
commit8004f2ac219abdd8660c02a4a46ed97695dc379d (patch)
tree85434b35563b7fac981de41710dc419366a22f1a /pod
parent4449c45db36a9fb1a03b0fdb9e259facf9647898 (diff)
downloadperl-8004f2ac219abdd8660c02a4a46ed97695dc379d.tar.gz
remove caller.pm from change#3534 (flawed idea)
p4raw-link: @3534 on //depot/perl: f3aa04c29a85dd63d563ae8e27316ff34501ccd5 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4929
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod6
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfunc.pod4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index efa1a2fce1..cba167f652 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ token; if not, the DATA filehandle will be left open in binary mode.
Earlier versions always opened the DATA filehandle in text mode.
The glob() operator is implemented via the L<File::Glob> extension,
-which supports glob syntax of the C<csh>. This increases the flexibility
+which supports glob syntax of the C shell. This increases the flexibility
of the glob() operator, but there may be compatibility issues for
programs that relied on the older globbing syntax. If you want to
preserve compatibility with the older syntax, you might want to put
@@ -1587,10 +1587,6 @@ syntax. See L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes"> and L<attributes>.
C<use utf8> to enable UTF-8 and Unicode support.
-C<use caller 'encoding'> allows modules to inherit pragmatic attributes
-from the caller's context. C<encoding> is currently the only supported
-attribute.
-
Lexical warnings pragma, C<use warnings;>, to control optional warnings.
See L<perllexwarn>.
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index a72645ab08..e40b31bec1 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ C<eval EXPR> statement. In particular, for a C<eval BLOCK> statement,
$filename is C<(eval)>, but $evaltext is undefined. (Note also that
each C<use> statement creates a C<require> frame inside an C<eval EXPR>)
frame. C<$hints> contains pragmatic hints that the caller was
-compiled with. It currently only reflects the hint corresponding to
-C<use utf8>.
+compiled with. The C<$hints> value is subject to change between versions
+of Perl, and is not meant for external use.
Furthermore, when called from within the DB package, caller returns more
detailed information: it sets the list variable C<@DB::args> to be the