From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:30:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Minimum Perl version?
Message-ID: <AANLkTimjMkJGw+Dh_x+TQUscC1tOV6kW=a6_57f2snnB@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:22, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
>> If that's the case (I don't have a 5.6 here to do archeology on) then
>> git add -p never worked in 5.6. That was added in 5cde71d6 when it was
>> introduced in 2006:
>>
>>    +sub run_cmd_pipe {
>>    +       my $fh = undef;
>>    +       open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;
>>    +       return <$fh>;
>>    +}
>>
>
> Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at test-pl.pl line 5.
> (that's the 'open' line)

Maybe it is not the syntax (the separate argument for open mode
in this case), but the initialization of $fh to 'undef' which is the
problem here?