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=head1 TITLE
Delete C<dbmopen> and C<dbmclose> commands.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Stephen P. Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Aug 24 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 1
Number: 157
=head1 ABSTRACT
The C<dbmopen> and C<dbmclose> commands are legacy commands which have been
deprecated for at least 5 years. They should be removed from the language.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Perl6 is a chance to finally remove all the deprecated syntax and start
fresh with only allowing the syntax we want. The C<dbmopen> and C<dbmclose>
commands are deprecated wrappers to C<tie> and C<untie> commands with a
specific limited functionality C<AnyDBM> package.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
Remove the wrappers from the core. The p52p6 script can replace any call
to C<dbmopen> with C<tie ..., "AnyDBM" ...> and any call to C<dbmclose> with
C<untie>.
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