You are viewing the version of this documentation from Perl 5.16.1. View the latest version

CONTENTS

NAME

deprecate - Perl pragma for deprecating the core version of a module

SYNOPSIS

use deprecate;	# always deprecate the module in which this occurs

use if $] > 5.010, 'deprecate';	# conditionally deprecate the module

DESCRIPTION

This module is used using use deprecate; (or something that calls deprecate->import(), for example use if COND, deprecate;).

If the module that includes use deprecate is located in a core library directory, a deprecation warning is issued, encouraging the user to use the version on CPAN. If that module is located in a site library, it is the CPAN version, and no warning is issued.

EXPORT

None by default. The only method is import, called by use deprecate;.

SEE ALSO

First example to use deprecate; was Switch.

AUTHOR

Original version by Nicholas Clark

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009, 2011

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.