From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:26:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: chom?p overridability is the other way
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chom?p overridability is the other way
Message-ID: <20020305222620.A733@rafael>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15049
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index e9d35ec..04c2e5d 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -408,9 +408,9 @@ removed/changed in future releases.)
 
 =item *
 
-chomp() and chop() have been demoted back to I<not> being overridable
-because they cannot really be overridden-- the problem is that their
-prototype cannot be expressed and therefore one really cannot write
+chomp() and chop() are now overridable.  Note, however, that their
+prototype (as given by C<prototype("CORE::chomp")> is undefined,
+because it cannot be expressed and therefore one cannot really write
 replacements to override these builtins.
 
 =item *