summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/pod/perldata.pod
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldata.pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldata.pod8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index f34979cef1..6d0fa0b21f 100644
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -251,14 +251,6 @@ which return whatever they feel like returning.) The following is
always true:
X<array, length>
- scalar(@whatever) == $#whatever - $[ + 1;
-
-Version 5 of Perl changed the semantics of C<$[>: files that don't set
-the value of C<$[> no longer need to worry about whether another
-file changed its value. (In other words, use of C<$[> is deprecated.)
-So in general you can assume that
-X<$[>
-
scalar(@whatever) == $#whatever + 1;
Some programmers choose to use an explicit conversion so as to