Change 17260 by jhi@alpha on 2002/06/16 17:06:31
Deprecate (or at least discourage) :raw.
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.... //depot/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#456 edit
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==== //depot/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#456 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#455~17248~ Fri Jun 14 15:34:27 2002
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Sun Jun 16 10:06:31 2002
@@ -233,6 +233,15 @@
=item *
+The PerlIO C<:raw> discipline (as described in Camel III) is deprecated
+because its definition (as either the discipline version of C<binmode(FH)>
+or as the opposite of C<:crlf>) didn't really work: most importantly
+because turning off "clrfness" is not enough to make a stream truly
+binary. Instead of C<:raw> use one of the following: C<open(..., ':bytes')>,
+C<binmode(FH)>, C<sysopen()> + C<sysread()>.
+
+=item *
+
The current user-visible implementation of pseudo-hashes (the weird
use of the first array element) is deprecated starting from Perl 5.8.0
and will be removed in Perl 5.10.0, and the feature will be
End of Patch.
