Re^3: Rewrite Program Using Arrays

In that case I'd prefer to see that in the documentation or a comment. By "using" a version number you are not merely saying "I've tested this only with this particular version." What you are effectively saying is more like "I believe this will not work with anything older than X."

If I see "use 5.12.4;" I assume there was something wrong with even 5.12.3, something that prevents the code to work correctly. So probably I would not bother trying to run it under 5.10.x. On the other hand with a comment about the version tested under, I would try it and only if I end up getting an error I'd take the possible version differences into account.

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Re^4: Rewrite Program Using Arrays by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 16:14 UTC
You're also documenting to Perl what you expect. Remember that much of the difficulty of parsing Perl 5 (and enhancing Perl 5) is that you can only guess as to which features of Perl 5 you expect in any given file without an explicit version declaration. Sure, feature enables keywords, but you also get different semantics in 5.12 and 5.14, for example, with the use of `unicode_strings`. With that said, `use 5.12.4;` has disadvantages compared to `use 5.012;`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Rewrite Program Using Arrays by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Mar 26, 2012 at 10:23 UTC
Use 5.12.4; is a habit. Nothing more. I usually do use features like `say`... --perl.j	[reply]
Re^5: Rewrite Program Using Arrays by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 26, 2012 at 10:54 UTC
That's why I default to 5.10.0. I just can't see the benefit of requiring 5.12.4. Even if were really keen on 5.12 features, I'd use `use 5.012;`. The only time I would write `use 5.12.4;` if the program needs a bugfix that happened between 5.12.3 and 5.12.4.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Rewrite Program Using Arrays by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Mar 26, 2012 at 16:53 UTC
It's something my teacher did, so I kind of copied. If I ever use a newer version of Perl, I will write 5.x.x --perl.j	[reply]


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