On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:17:57PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > I thought that allowing undef in my ($a, undef, $b) came in around 5.004ish, > but I can't find it in perldelta, and I don't have a version compiled to > test with (or any quick way to compile them, given that pretty much only > AIX is so stable that early perls compile unmodified. Probably someone will > tell me that VMS is also good enough, for 5.002 or later)
$ perl-5322 -we'my ($x,undef,$y) = 1..3' Can't declare undef operator in my at -e line 1, near ") =" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. $ perl545 -we'my ($x,undef,$y) = 1..3' $ -- "There's something wrong with our bloody ships today, Chatfield." -- Admiral Beatty at the Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.