On 2/4/2019 3:09 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>> Can we have an older perl, say, perl-5.0.16? works for my stuff mostly
>> unchanged,
>>
>
> You sure you mean 5.0.16? That's really, really old! Maybe you mean
> 5.16.1?
>
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ooops...5.16.3 actually....
5.18 was when they started w/they itchy trigger fingers and
pulling features into experimental status at the same time
they added a new incompat feature by default --
mandatory warnings.
Between the two more than a little bit of code broke, since code wisdom
before then was to always develop and run with warnings and strict on.
And some took it a step farther and did a die on warnings. --
which took out any prog that used 'my $_';
Anyway, someone uses 5.18.x as as their latest support for their
CPAN -- more CPAN authors aren't staying up-to-date as newer
features cause problems.
Who would have thought
using a sub by name that is 'export_ok', now is broken.
(Term::Size::Chars) -- that is actually a recommended usage
on its manpage but now breaks.
Sheesh.
I guess the new exporter disallows items in the export_allow list if
they are not in the export list?
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