* Synced the perlfaq

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

diff --git a/lib/exceptions.pl b/lib/exceptions.pl
index 02c4498..8c77a07 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/exceptions.pl
+++ b/lib/exceptions.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # exceptions.pl
 # tchrist@convex.com
-# 
+#
+# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
+# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
+#
+# In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
+# programming techniques.
+
+warn( "The 'exceptions.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+      . " removed in the next major release of perl." );
+
 # Here's a little code I use for exception handling.  It's really just
 # glorfied eval/die.  The way to use use it is when you might otherwise
 # exit, use &throw to raise an exception.  The first enclosing &catch