From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:43:38 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: perlvar: document what $[ will do under use v5.16
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~1731
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perlvar: document what $[ will do under use v5.16
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 68d2acf..63a4dc8 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -2103,6 +2103,10 @@ block.  Now it is always lexically scoped.
 As of Perl 5.16, it is implemented by the L<arybase> module.  See
 L<arybase> for more details on its behaviour.
 
+Under C<use v5.16>, or C<no feature "array_base">, C<$[> no longer has any
+effect, and always contains 0.  Assigning 0 to it is permitted, but any
+other value will produce an error.
+
 Mnemonic: [ begins subscripts.
 
 Deprecated in Perl 5.12.