Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So the problem is actually a dependency on a module not shipped with
> perl5.00503.
>
> This problem's been around a while -- I know I've reported it before. Is
> it time to give up on 5.00503? I will retest with 5.8.x, but the
> compilation takes a *long* time.
I'm not personally a fan of 5.005 compatibility, but it looks to me
like the "use charnames" was gratuitous, since charnames is already
being used inside the nearby eval. Does this fly?
/s
*** String.pm.~1.6.~ Sun Mar 16 01:02:08 2003
--- String.pm Mon Sep 15 09:07:00 2003
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*** 216,222 ****
error ("Error in interpolation of control-char: $@"),die if $@;
}
else {
- use charnames qw(:full);
# The charnames doesn't seem to propagate into the eval""
# for me -- sfink
$val = eval qq[use charnames qw(:full); "\\N{$_}"];
--- 216,221 ----
