On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 21:14, david nicol wrote: > a way to write an > application that will work under both versions, when the installer of > the program does not have control over the libraries and has an old > library installed.
Another possibility would be to use AUTOLOAD to defer defining the varying routines until they are used. This approach would not let multiple interfaces to get used in different places in the same system, but you lose the run-time overhead of version-based dispatch. -- david nicol War is hell.