5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently

Reported-by: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
p5p-msgid: 199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 9c85450..4c94482 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ cannot be built there, for lack of a reasonable command interpreter.
 Most importantly, many bugs were fixed, including several security
 problems.  See the F<Changes> file in the distribution for details.
 
+=head2 List assignment to %ENV works
+
+C<%ENV = ()> and C<%ENV = @list> now work as expected (except on VMS
+where it generates a fatal error).
+
+=head2 "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error now lists @INC
+
 =head2 Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
 
 There is a new Configure question that asks if you want to maintain
@@ -84,6 +91,13 @@ non-methods.  The simple fix for old code is:  In any module that used to
 depend on inheriting C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods from a base class named
 C<BaseClass>, execute C<*AUTOLOAD = \&BaseClass::AUTOLOAD> during startup.
 
+=head2 Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
+
+Using %OVERLOAD to define overloading was deprecated in 5.003.
+Overloading is now defined using the overload pragma. %OVERLOAD is
+still used internally but should not be used by Perl scripts. See
+L<overload> for more details.
+
 =head2 Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
 
 In Perl 5.004, nonexistent array and hash elements used as subroutine