From 86a9aef26fb49fa244fdb909e2ecabafc79006a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:35:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add note about "our"

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4802
---
 lib/vars.pm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/vars.pm b/lib/vars.pm
index ca2a08d..6ae5373 100644
--- a/lib/vars.pm
+++ b/lib/vars.pm
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ __END__
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names
+vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
+NOTE: The functionality provided by this pragma has been superseded
+by C<our> declarations, available in Perl v5.6.0 or later.  See
+L<perlfunc/our>.
+
 This will predeclare all the variables whose names are 
 in the list, allowing you to use them under "use strict", and
 disabling any typo warnings.
-- 
2.7.4