NAME

Warnings::Version - Load warnings from a specific version of perl

VERSION

version 0.001001

SYNOPSIS

use Warnings::Version '5.6';   # All warnings that exist on both perl 5.6 and your running version of perl will be enabled.
                               # For example, on perl 5.8 this will mean all 5.8 warnings except 'layer' and 'threads' warnings.

use Warnings::Version '5.6.2'; # Same thing; Warnings::Version ignores the .2 at the end.

use Warnings::Version '5.20';  # All warnings that exist on both perl 5.20 and your running version of perl will be enabled.
                               # For example, on perl 5.8 this will mean all 5.8 warnings except 'y2k' warnings.

use Warnings::Version '5.14';  # All warnings that exist on both perl 5.14 and your running version of perl will be enabled.
                               # For example, on perl 5.8 this will mean all 5.8 warnings except 'y2k' and 'utf8' warnings.

use Warnings::Version 'all';   # This special warning category gives you only the warnings that are on _all_ perls that ship with
                               # the warnings pragma.
use Warnings::Version 'all';
no warnings 'deprecated';      # You can disable specific warnings as usual

DESCRIPTION

Since newer versions of perl may add new warning categories, it can be annoying getting spurious warnings for code that used to work completely fine on a previous version of perl. This module only loads the warning categories that exist on both the perl you're running with, as well as the perl you wrote the module for. It is meant for module authors or people running code in production, who don't want to get tonnes of emails and bugreports when someone upgrades their perl version and your code starts emitting warnings. Of course you should still keep up to date with deprecations and perl's experiments so your code doesn't break when there's been actual changes in how things work, but with this module, at least your users don't need to worry about that too.

AUTHOR

Andreas Guldstrand <andreas.guldstrand@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2014 by Andreas Guldstrand.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License