From 344e7baabc415780b4d843f49dcdec9f4aec12a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juerd Waalboer Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 06:00:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] UPGRADING: Retract advice for removing bareword filehandles This won't be relevant for a few years. It's default disabled from Perl v5.38 which hasn't landed in current Debian stable yet, and since I intend to support Debian oldstable and stable, there are still many years ahead of us before this becomes relevant! --- UPGRADING.md | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/UPGRADING.md b/UPGRADING.md index ee8fc5e..1953768 100644 --- a/UPGRADING.md +++ b/UPGRADING.md @@ -42,10 +42,6 @@ transactions. "indirect object notation" is disabled, which means that `new Foo(...)` should be rewritten as `Foo->new(...)`. -A future Perl version bump to `v5.36` (expected in 2025 when Debian Bookworm -becomes oldstable) will disable "bareword filehandles", so you may want to -change `open FOO` to `open my $foo` in preparation for that change. - # (2023-11-05) RevBank 4.2.0 Accounts that begin with `*` are now special: like hidden accounts, they do not