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Why is that line even there at all? The meaning of that line is "This is guaranteed to not work in versions prior to 5.008". Why doesn't it work in those older versions? It certainly compiles fine (once that line is removed).

So it appears that the purpose of that line may simply be to guarantee that the module won't work for versions prior to 5.008 ( do you dislike old Perl versions? :). You should at least comment the line so people know why you know your module is incompatible with pre-5.008 Perls. Or don't include such lines if you don't actually know that your module "requires 5.008".

- tye        


In reply to Re^3: Huffman coding in pure Perl (why?) by tye
in thread Huffman coding in pure Perl by vrk

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