> Thanks for the test, John. In the book's example, they have:
>
> use v5.10;
>
> so I thought I was new enough, but maybe not.
http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/articles/10/04/13/1953252.shtml also
notes it as a new feature in 5.12. I'm sure the authors regret the
typo. ;^)
j.
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On Jan 14, 2014, at 4:04 PM, John SJ Anderson wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly when that syntax was added, but for what it's
> worth, it fails with 5.10.1 here too. Perl 5.12.5, on the other hand,
> works.
>
> You may just need to upgrade.
Thanks for the test, John. In the book's example, t
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:50 PM, SSC_perl wrote:
> I'm trying to number packages the way it's written about on page 406
> of Programming Perl, 4th ed., e.g.
>
> package Emailer 1.01;
>
> However, when I do that, I get the following error:
>
> syntax error at ss_files/Emailer.pm line 1, ne
