On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:29:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> It's not valid perl 4:
>
> $ perl4 -e 'no 5; print "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"'
> syntax error in file /tmp/perl-em47tij at line 1, next 2 tokens "no 5"
> Execution of /tmp/perl-em47tij aborted due to compilation errors.
$ perl1 -e 'no 4;
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:07:59PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
> Does this mean that we have to implement perl4 compatability?
>
> perl5 -e 'no 5; print "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"'
It's not valid perl 4:
$ perl4 -e 'no 5; print "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"'
syntax error in file /tmp/perl-em47tij at line 1, next
.
One of the uses I had in mind for it is to put "no 6" at the top of
modules or programs that are too tightly bound to Perl 5 that there
wouldn't be beneficial to port them to Perl 6. B::* or Safe come to
mind. Of course, that would mean that Perl 6 should also recognize and
hand
On 9/1/05, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just commited into bleadperl a patch that implements this :
>
> $ ./perl -e 'no 5'
> Perls since v5.0.0 too modern--this is v5.9.3, stopped at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
>
> That is, the e