perllocale: #109408

diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod
index 7ecff02..9217eec 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perllocale.pod
+++ b/pod/perllocale.pod
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ these kinds of matters is called B<internationalization> (often
 abbreviated as B<i18n>); telling such an application about a particular
 set of preferences is known as B<localization> (B<l10n>).
 
-Perl was extended, starting in 5.004, to support the locale system.  This
+Perl was extended to support the locale system.  This
 is controlled per application by using one pragma, one function call,
 and several environment variables.
 
@@ -246,9 +246,6 @@ untrustworthy.  See L<"SECURITY">.
 You can switch locales as often as you wish at run time with the
 POSIX::setlocale() function:
 
-        # This functionality not usable prior to Perl 5.004
-        require 5.004;
-
         # Import locale-handling tool set from POSIX module.
         # This example uses: setlocale -- the function call
         #                    LC_CTYPE -- explained below
@@ -506,8 +503,6 @@ current locale.
 Here's a simple-minded example program that rewrites its command-line
 parameters as integers correctly formatted in the current locale:
 
-    # See comments in previous example
-    require 5.004;
     use POSIX qw(locale_h);
 
     # Get some of locale's numeric formatting parameters