From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:07:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Let's bump the minimum Perl version to 5.8
Message-ID: <86lj6rutez.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikLYjKHyYOqiubygOD6nWO-FUS38dLALnx3iJ_8@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "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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