A Perl developer will often encounter Perl code that uses deprecated features. Is there a place where depricated features and functions in Perl are documented?

For example, horror of horrors, while auditing existing applications I often encounter the use of dynamic scoping. "When I see local used on a dynamic variable, I pull out my revolver."

On one dynamically scoped module they use what looks like a builtin called uselocal which I've never seen but which I can guess at. As in uselocal "Some::Module"; It looks like the beast of dynamic scoping got up and started to walk, it's so frightening. I don't have access yet to the entire app just this frightening script they've sent so I'll thank you if you tell me it's just a bad dream, that they've written a mimicked builtin with protos. Or tell me you've seen it before and it dropped out of perldoc -f range.

In reply to Depricated Features of the Language by Anonymous Monk

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