On Mon, 13 May 2002 22:01:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark)
wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:54:48AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote:
> 
> > Joe Schaefer points out that values() now works in this case.
> 
> As of 5.6.
[...]
> Otherwise people reading a current copy of the FAQ but programming for
> 5.005_03 or earlier will create buggy code.

The current copy of the FAQ already refers to several things which are
only in the newest perl, doesn't it? (For example, ISTR the
"adding/changing/deleting a line in a file" question referring to
Tie::File, which is in bleadperl but not even in 5.6.1.)

OTOH, there is the precedent of `perldoc -f srand` mentioning when the
automatic call to srand started, and when the default seed changed (and
probably other such "before version ABC, the behaviour was XYZ" places).

Cheers,
Philip

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