Re: [code-review] Hello!

Dan MacNeil <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:00:21 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.code-review-ladder
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> It'd say anybody who's got anything < 5.6.1 _really_ needs an upgrade.
> use vars... yuk!


I regularly use a tru64 unix system using perl 5.004_03, from back in
1997, I don't administer the system so I don't have much choice about
which perl to use.

I imagine folks still using VMS are in a similar situation.


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

>
> > Others have very ably recommended ways to test for Time::HiRes.  I'd
> > simply
> > add that you might want to use `use vars' instead of `our' since the
> > latter
> > won't work on all versions of Perl 5.x (I think the change happened in
> > 5.6.0,
> > but I may be wrong) --
>
> Hum... Hello? The latest version of Perl is 5.8.3.
>
> It'd say anybody who's got anything < 5.6.1 _really_ needs an upgrade.
> use vars... yuk!
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel.
>
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