Re: Which perl do you use?

I personally use 5.8.x, whichever minor version is installed on the server I happen to working on at the time.

However, I do try and write my CPAN modules with 5.005_03 in mind. So, things like:

No "use warnings" - only check $^W. And, don't enable warnings in your modules. (It's impolite.)
No assumption of Unicode-aware Perl - I make allowances for usage of Unicode::String.
Nothing with threads (luckily, I don't ever need it)
No pseudohashes

That's cause I know my modules are currently used in one place that's on 5.005_03 and I still have friends there. :-)

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