Replace references to PL_vtbl_{bm,fm} in the code with PL_vtbl_regexp.

[perl5.git] / lib / getopt.pl

diff --git a/lib/getopt.pl b/lib/getopt.pl
index b85b643..1d4008a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/getopt.pl
+++ b/lib/getopt.pl
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
-;# $Header: getopt.pl,v 3.0 89/10/18 15:19:26 lwall Locked $
+warn "Legacy library @{[(caller(0))[6]]} will be removed from the Perl core distribution in the next major release. Please install it from the CPAN distribution Perl4::CoreLibs. It is being used at @{[(caller)[1]]}, line @{[(caller)[2]]}.\n";
+
+;# $RCSfile: getopt.pl,v $$Revision: 4.1 $$Date: 92/08/07 18:23:58 $
+#
+# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
+# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
+#
+# In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
+# programming techniques.
+#
+# Suggested alternatives: Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std
 
 ;# Process single-character switches with switch clustering.  Pass one argument
 ;# which is a string containing all switches that take an argument.  For each
@@ -13,9 +25,9 @@ sub Getopt {
     local($argumentative) = @_;
     local($_,$first,$rest);
 
-    while (($_ = $ARGV[0]) =~ /^-(.)(.*)/) {
+    while (@ARGV && ($_ = $ARGV[0]) =~ /^-(.)(.*)/) {
        ($first,$rest) = ($1,$2);
-       if (index($argumentative,$first) >= $[) {
+       if (index($argumentative,$first) >= 0) {
            if ($rest ne '') {
                shift(@ARGV);
            }
@@ -23,10 +35,10 @@ sub Getopt {
                shift(@ARGV);
                $rest = shift(@ARGV);
            }
-           eval "\$opt_$first = \$rest;";
+           ${"opt_$first"} = $rest;
        }
        else {
-           eval "\$opt_$first = 1;";
+           ${"opt_$first"} = 1;
            if ($rest ne '') {
                $ARGV[0] = "-$rest";
            }