If you're wanting to ensure that your code will run on perl-5.8.4 then it's
best to actually test the code on perl-5.8.4.
If code that contains "use 5.008_004" runs fine on perl-5.10.0 (as would
generally be the case), there's no guarantee that it will run ok on
perl-5.8.4.
For example, this
Ah, so if the node has perl 5.8.4 and I use a code construct that came in
5.10, my code will fail?
I thought the "use" precluded me from using later code constructs. Drat,
now I have to figure out how to enforce that.
Thanks!
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 5:07 AM sisyphus wrote:
> "use 5.008_004"
"use 5.008_004" ensures that perl is at version 5.8.4 or later.
Try to run that script using perl-5.8.3 or earlier and it will croak with a
message that you need to be running version 5.8.4 or later.
Cheers,
Rob
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:44 PM Leam Hall wrote:
> I've seen code that has "use
I've seen code that has "use 5.008_004;" in the files. Yet the code also
uses tools like Build.PL that came after Perl 5.008. What does the "use
$perl_version" actually affect?
Thanks!
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