On 2 Nov 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Stephen Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The Slash style guide declared that Perl 5.005_03 and 5.6.0
> > were supported:
> >
> > We code everything to perl 5.005_03. Some day we may switch to
> > take advantage of perl 5.6 features. Regardless, all code
> > should run on perl 5.005_03 or any later version of perl 5.
> > All of the core P5EE code has been tested on perl 5.005_03 and
> > perl 5.6.0, though it has probably been used more on perl 5.6.0.
> >
> > What should the supported Perl versions be for P5EE?
>
> Or...what syntactic features introduced _since_ 5.005_03 are regarded
> as essential?
The only two things I tend to miss when going back are the ability to
turn off "Use of uninitialized value", and open(my $fh). Other than that I
tend to live with 5.5.3 quite happily.
Except when I'm playing with PerlIO and Unicode regexps in bleadperl, but
that's a whole different story :-)
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