I'm not well versed on the versions of Perl, but I don't think that was
a particularly bug-free version. I would recommend upgrading to at
least 5.005_03
Chris
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Nikola Janceski wrote:
> I have two versions of perl (5.004_04, and 5.6.1)
>
> it seems the older one doesn't like the following code:
>
> sub somefunction {
> if(exists $_[0]){
> print "$_[0]\n";
> }
> }
>
> Output of perl -c (of 5.004_4):
> exists operator argument is not a HASH element at ....
>
> any ideas why the old version dies and the new version has no problems? Is
> there a work around for this (without patching) for the old version?
>
>
> Nikola Janceski
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