could 5.8 make a difference in place of 5.6 ?

I am writing and/or modifying some perl scripts - they have they r for test automation for installation of some product and/or its patches , scripts have basic requoirement as perl 5.6.1 must be installed on the machine wherever r scripts gona fired , now my question could it m

RE: could 5.8 make a difference in place of 5.6 ?

ADEEP GOEL [mailto:pradeepg@;india.hp.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: could 5.8 make a difference in place of 5.6 ? I am writing and/or modifying some perl scripts - they have they r for test automation for installation of some product and/o

RE: could 5.8 make a difference in place of 5.6 ?

From: Aman Thind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 5.8 is perfectly backward compatible and no exception has been thrown > in my period of it's usage. I have recently upgraded from 5.6.1 to 5.8 > and my old scripts run perfecly fine. So any script that is good enuff > for 5.6 is good enuff f