When did warnings.pm come into existence?

jk2addict has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When did warnings.pm (use warnings) come into existance?

I was cruising Perldoc.com just for giggles, and went into the Perl 5.005_3 section, and there was a warnings perldoc page?!

Or, the other guess would be that the pages on perldoc are incorrect.

I thought the warnings pragma was a 5.6.1 thingamabob. Or maybe I've incorrectly assumed it wasn't part of perl 5 because it was never on my FreeBSD boxens' base perl (now @ 5.005.

Just a tad curious...
-=Chris

edited: Wed Aug 14 15:10:08 2002 by jeffa - title change [was: Silly Question(tm) about warnings.pm]

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Re: Silly Question(tm) about warnings.pm by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 13, 2002 at 20:43 UTC
The warnings.pm pragmatic is new to 5.6. Previous versions have the -w command line switch and the `$^W` global variable. 'Global' is the difference, warnings.pm is lexically scoped. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Silly Question(tm) about warnings.pm by Shendal (Hermit) on Aug 13, 2002 at 20:44 UTC
From the perl 5.6.0 FAQ: `How do I temporarily block warnings? If you are running Perl 5.6.0 or better, the use warnings pragma allows fine control of what warning are produced. ...` [download] Previous versions lacked this pragma, but included the '-w' command line switch. Cheers, Shendal	[reply] [d/l]