"John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/06/2006 09:57:57 AM:
> Craig Berry did the calculations and determined that /symbol was not
> needed, and so the patch was left in.
Thanks for posting the summary. I appreciate that maintainability
was of concern. In fact it appears that going from 5.005_02 to 5.8.7
we have lost many characters:
$ perl "-MConfig" -e "print $],' ',length($Config{'sig_name_init'})"
5.00502 272
$ perl_setup 587
Testing version 5.8.7 of Perl
%DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of PERLSHR has been superseded
$ perl "-MConfig" -e "print $],' ',length($Config{'sig_name_init'})"
5.008007 126
That should easily be writable on VMS V 5.5-2 I'd think.
Peter Prymmer
