Note that 5.6 says *auto-vivification*, you could actually use scalar file handles prior to this but you had to use Symbol::gensym (which is the proper way to do the work-around given).
perl -MModule::CoreList -e 'print Module::CoreList->first_release('Symbol');' prints 5.002 -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidccAAAA= -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 70th of Discord, in the YOLD 3172: 1 1 2 3 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm