* Synced the perlfaq

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

diff --git a/lib/look.pl b/lib/look.pl
index e8dc8aa..fec31fe 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/look.pl
+++ b/lib/look.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 ;# Usage: &look(*FILEHANDLE,$key,$dict,$fold)
+#
+# 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 'look.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+      . " removed in the next major release of perl." );
 
 ;# Sets file position in FILEHANDLE to be first line greater than or equal
 ;# (stringwise) to $key.  Pass flags for dictionary order and case folding.