Remove the other 4 bits of MAD code designed to abort on local $^L.

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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
index 72a5232..4a10d6a 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 7822 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 8539 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -150,20 +150,20 @@ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ .
 
 See L<perlhist> for a history of Perl revisions.
 
-=head2 What is Ponie?
+=head2 What was Ponie?
 
 (contributed by brian d foy)
 
 Ponie stands for "Perl On the New Internal Engine", started by Arthur
 Bergman from Fotango in 2003, and subsequently run as a project of The
-Perl Foundation. Instead of using the current Perl internals, Ponie
-creates a new one that provides a translation path from Perl 5 to Perl 6
-(or anything else that targets Parrot, actually). You can also just keep
-using Perl 5 with Parrot, the virtual machine which will compile and run
-Perl 6 bytecode.
+Perl Foundation. It was abandoned in 2006
+(http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/487).
 
-You can get more information at http://www.poniecode.org/ and
-http://www.parrotcode.org .
+Instead of using the current Perl internals, Ponie aimed to create a
+new one that would provide a translation path from Perl 5 to Perl 6
+(or anything else that targets Parrot, actually). You would have been
+able  to just keep using Perl 5 with Parrot, the virtual machine which
+will compile and run Perl 6 bytecode.
 
 =head2 What is perl6?
 
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Things that make Perl easier to learn: Unix experience, almost any kind
 of programming experience, an understanding of regular expressions, and
 the ability to understand other people's code.  If there's something you
 need to do, then it's probably already been done, and a working example is
-usually available for free.  Don't forget the new perl modules, either.
+usually available for free.  Don't forget Perl modules, either.
 They're discussed in Part 3 of this FAQ, along with CPAN, which is
 discussed in Part 2.
 
@@ -390,15 +390,15 @@ You might find these links useful:
 
 =head1 REVISION
 
-Revision: $Revision: 7822 $
+Revision: $Revision: 8539 $
 
-Date: $Date: 2006-09-11 14:22:59 +0200 (lun, 11 sep 2006) $
+Date: $Date: 2007-01-11 00:07:14 +0100 (jeu, 11 jan 2007) $
 
 See L<perlfaq> for source control details and availability.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
+Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
 other authors as noted. All rights reserved.
 
 This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it