deprecate(3pm)                                  Perl Programmers Reference Guide                                  deprecate(3pm)



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

       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.



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-07                                             deprecate(3pm)