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diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod index 2727e95ae9..a62276b782 100644 --- a/pod/perlref.pod +++ b/pod/perlref.pod @@ -538,6 +538,13 @@ string is effectively quoted. B<WARNING>: This section describes an experimental feature. Details may change without notice in future versions. +B<NOTE>: The current user-visible implementation of pseudo-hashes +(the weird use of the first array element) is deprecated starting from +Perl 5.8.0 and will be removed in Perl 5.10.0, and the feature will be +implemented differently. Not only is the current interface rather ugly, +but the current implementation slows down normal array and hash use quite +noticeably. The 'fields' pragma interface will remain available. + Beginning with release 5.005 of Perl, you may use an array reference in some contexts that would normally require a hash reference. This allows you to access array elements using symbolic names, as if they |