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Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
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Sep 24, 2010, 14:07 UTC
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>>>>> "Ævar" == Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

Ævar> Right, except that should be `use 5.008`. Since you don't want to run Ævar> anything else within an implicit or explicit BEGIN block before perl Ævar> fails on that. E.g. `require 5.008; use Digest::MD5;` would just spew Ævar> an error about Digest::MD5.

Fairy 'nuff.
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Message 14 of 18 in “Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8”
  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 24, 2010
  2. Tor ArntsenSep 24, 2010
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 24, 2010
  4. Andreas EricssonSep 24, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 24, 2010
  6. Andreas EricssonSep 26, 2010
  7. Tor ArntsenSep 24, 2010
  8. Brian GernhardtSep 24, 2010
  9. Tom G. ChristensenSep 27, 2010
  10. Pascal ObrySep 24, 2010
  11. Joshua JuranSep 24, 2010
  12. Randal L. SchwartzSep 24, 2010
  13. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 24, 2010
  14. Randal L. SchwartzSep 24, 2010
  15. perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21]Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 24, 2010
  16. Tor ArntsenSep 26, 2010
  17. Tom G. ChristensenSep 27, 2010
  18. perl: use "use warnings" instead of -wÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 24, 2010

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