On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 12:00:36 -0400 , Uri Guttman wrote: > also the use of // for defined or is relatively recent in perl. be > careful when using it as it may not work in the version you have > installed or in production.
Relatively recent meaning 3.5 years old, and released in a version of perl that has been officially EOLd by the perl5 porters (giving way to 5.12 and 5.14). It's only an issue if you're on an old, not-updated RedHat, an ancient Debian (old-old stable, maybe older still), or an old Solaris. Maybe some other rather older systems. Seriously, in all the client and work machines I've used, I've not had to worry about using 5.10 features. If I can use them without qualms in code targetting Debian and RedHat, most folks won't have to worry. -- Chris Nehren | Coder, Sysadmin, Masochist Shadowcat Systems Ltd. | http://shadowcat.co.uk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
