From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:06:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Deprecate (or at least discourage) :raw. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73c63b5048398e3891c05a43e441c5900263864e;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Deprecate (or at least discourage) :raw. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17260 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index dfb6b93..7fd8a07 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -233,6 +233,15 @@ source code level, this shouldn't be that drastic a change. =item * +The PerlIO C<:raw> discipline (as described in Camel III) is deprecated +because its definition (as either the discipline version of C +or as the opposite of C<:crlf>) didn't really work: most importantly +because turning off "clrfness" is not enough to make a stream truly +binary. Instead of C<:raw> use one of the following: C, +C, C + C. + +=item * + The current user-visible implementation of pseudo-hashes (the weird use of the first array element) is deprecated starting from Perl 5.8.0 and will be removed in Perl 5.10.0, and the feature will be