I would like a Perl program I made years ago to run the latest version of Perl 5.22. But the biggest problem I face with this task is the size of the program. The only way I see this happening is if I rebuild the hole framework from scratch under 5.22 while trying to recycle and convert some methods.
There is no other reason I can see why i need to upgrade other than the fact that the program is stuck at Perl 5.8 and to upgrade to 5.22 would need a major overhaul to the hole framework.
Are there any advantages of using the latest Perl version that I missed?
The lesson was... Don't use Exporter in a file you have named "exporter" to keep your variables in scope. But you can use Exporter in a file called "foo" and it will work fine.