As I was looking over the Pod/Perldoc.pm code the other day (in order to
make the long-long-long-delayed release), I noted that it used just a few
constructs that would stop it from running under, say, Perl 5.00404. There
was one qr/.../ (which I could work around very easily), and maybe six or
seven three-argument open() calls -- i.e., open($x, ">", $y) instead of
older-style open($x, "> $y") (assuming sane values of $y, as I think we can
assume in all this perldoc code).
So I got to thinking -- I could easily backport this, i.e., easily change
this code to run under older Perls, so that the decent number of people
still labouring with 5.005 installs of perl could at least have a nice
modern perldoc if they wanted it.
Can anyone see any reason not to do this?
--
Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
