From e1dccc0d34a90e3511bfed596be9d78128ca7ee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 23:27:16 +0100
Subject: remove index offsetting ($[)

$[ remains as a variable.  It no longer has compile-time magic.
At runtime, it always reads as zero, accepts a write of zero, but dies
on writing any other value.
---
 pod/perldata.pod | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'pod/perldata.pod')

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 
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