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authorchromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>2001-09-22 15:27:56 -0600
committerAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>2001-09-23 06:56:32 +0000
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Re:
Forgotten deprecation of *glob{FILEHANDLE}? Message-Id: <20010923033252.33085.qmail@onion.perl.org> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12153
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@@ -243,7 +243,9 @@ All of these are self-explanatory except for C<*foo{IO}>. It returns
the IO handle, used for file handles (L<perlfunc/open>), sockets
(L<perlfunc/socket> and L<perlfunc/socketpair>), and directory
handles (L<perlfunc/opendir>). For compatibility with previous
-versions of Perl, C<*foo{FILEHANDLE}> is a synonym for C<*foo{IO}>.
+versions of Perl, C<*foo{FILEHANDLE}> is a synonym for C<*foo{IO}>, though it
+is deprecated as of 5.8.0. If deprecation warnings are in effect, it will warn
+of its use.
C<*foo{THING}> returns undef if that particular THING hasn't been used yet,
except in the case of scalars. C<*foo{SCALAR}> returns a reference to an