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perl5100delta: document removal of 'package;' syntax

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The 'package;' (null package) syntax that was deprecated in perl 5.8 was
removed in 5.10, but there is no mention of it in the perldeltas. Until
now.
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@ -663,6 +663,13 @@ On 5.10.0 and newer, the code warns when main contains C<use warnings;>
It does not matter if Foo::Base or Foo::Bar have warnings enabled
to disable the warning one has to modify main.
=head2 Removal of C<package;> (C<package> without arguments)
The C<package;> syntax that would let code switch out of any package (and thus
require the use of either lexical or fully-qualified names) has been removed.
Its semantics were never that clear and its implementation even less so. (It
was previously deprecated in perl 5.8.0.)
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=head2 Upgrading individual core modules