On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:44:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If I run this script:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use open IN => ":byte";
> use constant A => 1;
>
> on a MacBook Pro (Intel) with perl version 5.8.6 (the pre-installed) I
> get this error:
> Can't locate constant.pm in @INC ...
>
> if I change the line to:
> use open IN => ":encoding(UTF16-BE)";
>
> I get this error:
> Unrecognized character \xE0 at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/constant.pm line
> 1.
I get similar with 5.8.7 and 5.9.5 on NetBSD/Alpha, and 5.10.0 patch 31863
on Solaris/SPARC. Congratulations, it looks like you've found a bug in
perl!
> In both cases:
> If I swap the lines, everything runs smoothly.
Same here. I've CCed p5p on this mail.
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