perldelta: ‘package;’ is no longer supported

diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index fce27f2..8fb7ad1 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -406,7 +406,8 @@ represent the current filename, line number, and package name at that
 point in your program.  They may be used only as separate tokens; they
 will not be interpolated into strings.  If there is no current package
 (due to an empty C<package;> directive), __PACKAGE__ is the undefined
-value.
+value. (But the empty C<package;> is no longer supported, as of version
+5.10.)
 X<__FILE__> X<__LINE__> X<__PACKAGE__> X<line> X<file> X<package>
 
 The two control characters ^D and ^Z, and the tokens __END__ and __DATA__