From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:43:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC3.5 05/12] send-email: Improve redability and error-handling in send_message's sendmail code
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904181943t71d501a6r51bb4cc846f32f78@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18071eea0904181917u7c7187bubc8fab6ede2d19ef@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 21:17, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
> More concerning is that it's a perl 5.10ism -- you cannot assume that
> perl 5.10 is installed on all platforms.  I really wouldn't use this
> construct.

See that's the thing: How am I supposed to know it's a perl 5.10ism?
The Perl docs give absolutely no clue; Perl[5] is based way too much
on practice rather than theory, because only people that have been
using it since day 1 know what's going on. A couple of weeks ago, I
went to the perldoc website and just read each website one after the
other---that is my total knowledge of Perl, and already I've caught
flack a number of times for having used 'new-fangled technologies'; I
really wish the docs would specify when a feature became available.

... add that to the list of perldoc shortcomings.