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regarding perlvar.1.gz: warn before any deprecated items
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Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.8.8-6.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlvar.1.gz
There I am on my tiny PDA, reading and embedding in what precious
brain cells left,
$* Set to a non-zero integer value to do multi-line matching
within a string, 0 (or undefined) to tell Perl that it can
assume that strings contain a single line, for the purpose
of optimizing pattern matches. Pattern matches on strings
containing multiple newlines can produce confusing results
when $* is 0 or undefined. Default is undefined.
(Mnemonic: * matches multiple things.) This variable
influences the interpretation of only "^" and "$". A lit-
eral newline can be searched for even when "$* == 0".
Upon which I encounter
Use of $* is deprecated in modern Perl, supplanted by the
"/s" and "/m" modifiers on pattern matching.
Oh great, why couldn't deprecation also be mentioned at the beginning
of the $* discussion? That way I could have spared the cells. Same for
others on this page.
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Version: 5.10.0-1
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:56:18AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.8-6.1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlvar.1.gz
>
> There I am on my tiny PDA, reading and embedding in what precious
> brain cells left,
> Use of $* is deprecated in modern Perl, supplanted by the
> "/s" and "/m" modifiers on pattern matching.
>
> Oh great, why couldn't deprecation also be mentioned at the beginning
> of the $* discussion? That way I could have spared the cells. Same for
> others on this page.
The deprecated variables are gone in 5.10.0 (currently in experimental)
along with their documentation. Closing.
Cheers,
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Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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