From: Paul Johnson <paul@pjcj.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:44:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [DOC PATCH] was Re: things deprecated for removal in 5.12
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[DOC PATCH] was Re: things deprecated for removal in 5.12
Message-ID: <20080110224420.GB29292@pjcj.net>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32945
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 3456d9a..ffaaa17 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -4060,12 +4060,6 @@ If the package name is null, the C<main> package as assumed.  That is,
 C<$::sail> is equivalent to C<$main::sail> (as well as to C<$main'sail>,
 still seen in older code).
 
-If NAMESPACE is omitted, then there is no current package, and all
-identifiers must be fully qualified or lexicals.  However, you are
-strongly advised not to make use of this feature. Its use can cause
-unexpected behaviour, even crashing some versions of Perl. It is
-deprecated, and will be removed from a future release.
-
 See L<perlmod/"Packages"> for more information about packages, modules,
 and classes.  See L<perlsub> for other scoping issues.