Re: Oldest supported Perl version

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2009, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490904200851i7e57b7b9pe56aeaace22bc6b8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49ec981f.1e038e0a.2c74.fffff13c@mx.google.com>

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:

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> ====> Sorry for the repeat; I think I'll go install an MUA now.
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:59, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry, I should have checked myself.  defined-or "//" is 5.8.1 or later.
>
> From what I've read:
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>        http://perldoc.perl.org/perl581delta.html#Future-Directions
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> The defined-OR only exists for 5.8.1 in patch form, and it's only directly
> supported in 5.10.0:
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>        http://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html#Defined-or-operator
>
> :-(

I started this new thread to address Junio's question about the oldest supported Perl version, so that tidbit isn't really relevant and I should've trimmed it from the new thread. Nonetheless, thank you for the correction again again, and enjoy your new MUA. :-)

j.