That was nice food for thought. 
package deprecated;

use constant EVAL_CODE => <<'END_CODE';
sub %1$s::INIT {
    my $overridden = \&%2$s;
    *%2$s = sub {
        require Carp;
        Carp::carp('%2$s() is deprecated');
        *%2$s = $overridden;
        goto &$overridden;
    };
}
END_CODE

sub import {
    my $class = shift;
    my $pkg = caller;
    eval join '', map sprintf(EVAL_CODE, $pkg, "$pkg\::$_"), @_;
}

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It should be obvious what is happening here, if not just change the eval to a print.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: use deprecated; by Aristotle
in thread use deprecated; by halley

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