[PATCH-DOC] Re: [perl #64180] $*'s entry in perldiag assumes thereader already knows what it did

Citeren "naesten@gmail.com (via RT)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>:
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> I got this warning when running a script that had presumably gone
> unused for some time:
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> $* is no longer supported at ./src/doc/DANG/DANG_c.pl line 402.
>
> Looking it up in perldiag, I found:
[...]
>
> But that still left me without much clue as to how what $* actually
> did relates to "//m" and "//s" or how to update old code that used it.

Attached is a patch that updates the documentation of $* in perldiag.

Old:

$* is no longer supported
     (S deprecated, syntax) The special variable $*, deprecated in  
older perls, has been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported.  
You should use the "//m" and "//s" regexp modifiers instead.


New:

$* is no longer supported
     (S deprecated, syntax) The special variable $*, deprecated in  
older perls, has been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported.  
In previous versions of perl the use of $* enabled or disabled  
multi-line matching within a string.

     Instead of using $* you should use the "/m" (and maybe "/s")  
regexp modifiers. (In older versions: when $* was set to a true value  
then all regular expressions behaved as if they were written using  
"/m".)


Best regards,

Bram

• [perl #64180] $*'s entry in perldiag assumes the reader already knows what it did by perlbug-followup
• [PATCH-DOC] Re: [perl #64180] $*'s entry in perldiag assumes thereader already knows what it did by Bram
• Re: [PATCH-DOC] Re: [perl #64180] $*'s entry in perldiag assumes the reader already knows what it did by Rafael Garcia-Suarez