Ah, so if the node has perl 5.8.4 and I use a code construct that came in 5.10, my code will fail?
I thought the "use" precluded me from using later code constructs. Drat, now I have to figure out how to enforce that. Thanks! On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 5:07 AM sisyphus <sisyphus...@gmail.com> wrote: > "use 5.008_004" ensures that perl is at version 5.8.4 or later. > Try to run that script using perl-5.8.3 or earlier and it will croak with > a message that you need to be running version 5.8.4 or later. > > Cheers, > Rob > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:44 PM Leam Hall <leamh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've seen code that has "use 5.008_004;" in the files. Yet the code also >> uses tools like Build.PL that came after Perl 5.008. What does the "use >> $perl_version" actually affect? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >> >>
