perlapi: Move 'experimental' warning to front of entries

[perl5.git] / autodoc.pl

diff --git a/autodoc.pl b/autodoc.pl
index 3b39696..59dc6f0 100644 (file)
--- a/autodoc.pl
+++ b/autodoc.pl
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ DOC:
            if ($docref and %$docref) {
                $embed_where = $docref->{flags} =~ /A/ ? 'api' : 'guts';
                $embed_may_change = $docref->{flags} =~ /M/;
+                $flags .= 'D' if $docref->{flags} =~ /D/;
            } else {
                $missing{$name} = $file;
            }
@@ -171,8 +172,15 @@ sub docout ($$$) { # output the docs for one function
     my($flags, $docs, $ret, $file, @args) = @$docref;
     $name =~ s/\s*$//;
 
-    $docs .= "NOTE: this function is experimental and may change or be
-removed without notice.\n\n" if $flags =~ /x/;
+    if ($flags =~ /D/) {
+        $docs = "\n\nDEPRECATED!  It is planned to remove this function from a
+future release of Perl.  Do not use it for new code; remove it from
+existing code.\n\n$docs";
+    }
+    else {
+        $docs = "\n\nNOTE: this function is experimental and may change or be
+removed without notice.\n\n$docs" if $flags =~ /x/;
+    }
     $docs .= "NOTE: the perl_ form of this function is deprecated.\n\n"
        if $flags =~ /p/;
     $docs .= "NOTE: this function must be explicitly called as Perl_$name with an aTHX_ parameter.\n\n"
@@ -374,8 +382,9 @@ foreach (sort keys %missing) {
 # walk table providing an array of components in each line to
 # subroutine, printing the result
 
-# List of funcs in the public API that aren't also marked as experimental.
-my @missing_api = grep $funcflags{$_}{flags} =~ /A/ && $funcflags{$_}{flags} !~ /M/ && !$docs{api}{$_}, keys %funcflags;
+# List of funcs in the public API that aren't also marked as experimental nor
+# deprecated.
+my @missing_api = grep $funcflags{$_}{flags} =~ /A/ && $funcflags{$_}{flags} !~ /[MD]/ && !$docs{api}{$_}, keys %funcflags;
 output('perlapi', <<'_EOB_', $docs{api}, \@missing_api, <<'_EOE_');
 =head1 NAME
 
@@ -415,11 +424,6 @@ But the ordinals of characters differ between ASCII, EBCDIC, and
 the UTF- encodings, and a string encoded in UTF-EBCDIC may occupy more bytes
 than in UTF-8.
 
-Also, on some EBCDIC machines, functions that are documented as operating on
-US-ASCII (or Basic Latin in Unicode terminology) may in fact operate on all
-256 characters in the EBCDIC range, not just the subset corresponding to
-US-ASCII.
-
 The listing below is alphabetical, case insensitive.
 
 _EOB_