This usage has been deprecated, and will no longer be allowed in Perl 5.32.
+=head2 Use of strings with code points over 0xFF as arguments to C<vec>
+
+C<vec> views its string argument as a sequence of bits. A string
+containing a code point over 0xFF is nonsensical. This usage is
+deprecated in Perl 5.28, and will be removed in Perl 5.32.
+
=head2 Perl 5.30
=head3 C<< $* >> is no longer supported
=head2 Perl 5.28
-=head3 Attribute "%s" is deprecated, and will disappear in 5.28
+=head3 Attributes C<< :locked >> and C<< :unique >>
The attributes C<< :locked >> (on code references) and C<< :unique >>
(on array, hash and scalar references) have had no effect since
Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.8.8 respectively. Their use has been deprecated
since.
-These attributes will no longer be recognized in Perl 5.28, and will
-then result in a syntax error. Since the attributes do not do anything,
-removing them from your code fixes the deprecation warning; and removing
-them will not influence the behaviour of your code.
+As of Perl 5.28, these attributes are syntax errors. Since the
+attributes do not do anything, removing them from your code fixes
+the syntax error; and removing them will not influence the behaviour
+of your code.
=head3 Bare here-document terminators
Perl has allowed you to use a bare here-document terminator to have the
here-document end at the first empty line. This practise was deprecated
-in Perl 5.000, and this will be a fatal error in Perl 5.28.
+in Perl 5.000; as of Perl 5.28, using a bare here-document terminator
+throws a fatal error.
You are encouraged to use the explictly quoted form if you wish to
use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document:
setting C<$/> to undef, with the exception that this warning would be
thrown.
-In Perl 5.28, this will throw a fatal error.
+As of Perl 5.28, setting C<$/> to a reference of a non-positive
+integer throws a fatal error.
You are recommended to change your code to set C<$/> to C<undef> explicitly
if you wish to slurp the file.
=head3 Limit on the value of Unicode code points.
-Unicode only allows code points up to 0x10FFFF, but Perl allows much
-larger ones. However, using code points exceeding the maximum value
-of an integer (C<IV_MAX>) may break the perl interpreter in some constructs,
-including causing it to hang in a few cases. The known problem areas
-are in C<tr///>, regular expression pattern matching using quantifiers,
-as quote delimiters in C<qI<X>...I<X>> (where I<X> is the C<chr()> of a large
-code point), and as the upper limits in loops.
+Unicode only allows code points up to 0x10FFFF, but Perl allows
+much larger ones. Up till Perl 5.28, it was allowed to use code
+points exceeding the maximum value of an integer (C<IV_MAX>).
+However, that did break the perl interpreter in some constructs,
+including causing it to hang in a few cases. The known problem
+areas were in C<tr///>, regular expression pattern matching using
+quantifiers, as quote delimiters in C<qI<X>...I<X>> (where I<X> is
+the C<chr()> of a large code point), and as the upper limits in
+loops.
-The use of out of range code points was deprecated in Perl 5.24, and
-it will be a fatal error in Perl 5.28.
+The use of out of range code points was deprecated in Perl 5.24; as of
+Perl 5.28 using a code point exceeding C<IV_MAX> throws a fatal error.
If your code is to run on various platforms, keep in mind that the upper
-limit depends on the platform. It is much larger on 64-bit word sizes
-than 32-bit ones.
+limit depends on the platform. It is much larger on 64-bit word sizes
+than 32-bit ones. For 32-bit integers, C<IV_MAX> equals C<0x7FFFFFFF>,
+for 64-bit integers, C<IV_MAX> equals C<0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF>.
=head3 Use of comma-less variable list in formats.
-It's allowed to use a list of variables in a format, without
+It was allowed to use a list of variables in a format, without
separating them with commas. This usage has been deprecated
-for a long time, and it will be a fatal error in Perl 5.28.
-
-
+for a long time, and as of Perl 5.28, this throws a fatal error.
=head3 Use of C<\N{}>
Use of C<\N{}> with nothing between the braces was deprecated in
-Perl 5.24, and will throw a fatal error in Perl 5.28.
+Perl 5.24, and throws a fatal error as of Perl 5.28.
Since such a construct is equivalent to using an empty string,
you are recommended to remove such C<\N{}> constructs.
-
=head3 Using the same symbol to open a filehandle and a dirhandle
It used to be legal to use C<open()> to associate both a
Perl 5.10.
Using the same symbol to C<open()> a filehandle and a dirhandle
-will be a fatal error in Perl 5.28.
+throws a fatal error as of Perl 5.28.
You should be using two different symbols instead.
than C<undef> was deprecated in Perl 5.22. Full deprecation
of the variable happened in Perl 5.25.3.
-Setting this variable will become a fatal error in Perl 5.28.
+Setting this variable to anything other than an undefined value
+throws a fatal error as of Perl 5.28.
=head3 C<< B::OP::terse >>
This method, which just calls C<< B::Concise::b_terse >>, has been
-deprecated, and will disappear in Perl 5.28. Please use
+deprecated, and disappeared in Perl 5.28. Please use
C<< B::Concise >> instead.
-=head3 Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated
+=head3 Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s::%s() is no longer allowed
-As an (ahem) accidental feature, C<AUTOLOAD> subroutines are looked
+As an (ahem) accidental feature, C<AUTOLOAD> subroutines were looked
up as methods (using the C<@ISA> hierarchy) even when the subroutines
to be autoloaded were called as plain functions (e.g. C<Foo::bar()>),
not as methods (e.g. C<< Foo->bar() >> or C<< $obj->bar() >>).
-This bug will be rectified in future by using method lookup only for
-methods' C<AUTOLOAD>s.
+This bug was deprecated in Perl 5.004, has been rectified in Perl 5.28
+
by using method lookup only for methods' C<AUTOLOAD>s.
The simple rule is: Inheritance will not work when autoloading
non-methods. The simple fix for old code is: In any module that used
you should remove AutoLoader from @ISA and change C<use AutoLoader;> to
C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';>.
-This feature was deprecated in Perl 5.004, and will be fatal in Perl 5.28.
-
=head3 Use of code points over 0xFF in string bitwise operators
The string bitwise operators, C<&>, C<|>, C<^>, and C<~>, treat
their operands as strings of bytes. As such, values above 0xFF
are nonsensical. Using such code points with these operators
-was deprecated in Perl 5.24, and will be fatal in Perl 5.28.
+was deprecated in Perl 5.24, and is fatal as of Perl 5.28.
=head3 In XS code, use of C<to_utf8_case()>
-This function is being removed; instead convert to call
+This function has been removed as of Perl 5.28; instead convert to call
the appropriate one of:
L<C<toFOLD_utf8_safe>|perlapi/toFOLD_utf8_safe>.
L<C<toLOWER_utf8_safe>|perlapi/toLOWER_utf8_safe>,
Since Perl 5.18, the option C<< --libpods >> has been deprecated, and
using this option did not do anything other than producing a warning.
-The C<< --libpods >> option is no longer recognized in Perl 5.26.
+The C<< --libpods >> option is no longer recognized as of Perl 5.26.
=head3 The utilities C<< c2ph >> and C<< pstruct >>
These old, perl3-era utilities have been deprecated in favour of
-C<< h2xs >> for a long time. In Perl 5.26, they have been removed.
+C<< h2xs >> for a long time. As of Perl 5.26, they have been removed.
=head3 Trapping C<< $SIG {__DIE__} >> other than during program exit.
Perl never issued a deprecation warning for this; the deprecation
was by documentation policy only. But this deprecation has been
-lifted in Perl 5.26.
+lifted as of Perl 5.26.
=head3 Malformed UTF-8 string in "%s"
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