more aggressively deprecate L<section> and L<"section">

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / bigint.pl

diff --git a/lib/bigint.pl b/lib/bigint.pl
index 9a3d50d..a31bfec 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/bigint.pl
+++ b/lib/bigint.pl
@@ -5,9 +5,15 @@ package bigint;
 #
 # In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
 # programming techniques.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
 #
 # Suggested alternative:  Math::BigInt
-#
+
+warn( "The 'bigint.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+      . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the"
+      . " Math::BigInt module instead." );
+
 # arbitrary size integer math package
 #
 # by Mark Biggar
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ package bigint;
 #   '+0'                            canonical zero value
 #   '   -123 123 123'               canonical value '-123123123'
 #   '1 23 456 7890'                 canonical value '+1234567890'
-# Output values always always in canonical form
+# Output values always in canonical form
 #
 # Actual math is done in an internal format consisting of an array
 #   whose first element is the sign (/^[+-]$/) and whose remaining