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Hobbyist Perl s‎crip‎ts since the mid '90's, when I picked it up to start doing some simple cgi and random .sig picker for my college-supplied email and personal homepage.

Since my searches for Perl questions usually had the best answer here, I decided I'd finally make an account, and see if I could occasionally answer something rather than just having all my questions answered. :-)

Took over Games::Literati a few years back, because it'd had a long-time scoring bug, and I wanted to add some features (like Words With Friends). That got me interested in publicly contributing to CPAN: while I don't think anyone but me has ever used one of my modules, they do exist. :-)

Developing Data::IEEE754::Tools because I'm interested in the underlying encoding of floating-point numbers, and because Integers sometimes turn into Reals after substraction started an Earworm, fed by Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?, that then wouldn't go away.

Developing Math::PRBS because sometimes, a PRBS is useful to have, and I was surprised to find that I couldn't see it in Math::NumSeq (under any name that I could think of); even if it does include it, one of its prerequisite libraries doesn't compile on Win32 systems. So, I made one (that didn't rely on the prerequisite libraries, so not part of the Math::NumSeq family).

I listed some of my programming history (and potential future) in response to the January 2019 Poll. People reading this far through my bio might be interested to see that history, too.

Since Re^2: Canonization Without Representation showed I was interested: #709 in 556d (1y + 6mo + 7d). I tied for #100 on 2023-Nov-28 (7y + 8mo + 10d), much to my amazement (I never thought I'd be one of the top 100 monks!)

cavac created a monster; I just tabled my rune:

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open('<&'), Perl::MinimumVersion, and my test suite in Seekers of Perl Wisdom
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on Apr 05, 2016 at 12:26

    Fellow Monks, when I released Games::Literati 0.032, I discovered the hard way (thanks, CPAN Testers) that in-memory files are not compatible with Perl 5.6. The module itself doesn't use in-memory files, but part of my test suite did. So I reworked the test suite to not use in-memory files. I then found Perl::MinimumVersion 1.38, and ran perlver on my module and test files, and all claimed to be Perl 5.6.0 compatible. However, when I released Games::Literati 0.040, I was surprised to see CPAN Testers flag me for failure when tested under Perl 5.6.2. :-(

    tl;dr summary

    1. What Perl version introduced open() using '<&'? I know that by 5.8.5, it works, and apparently it doesn't in 5.6.2.
    2. Should I consider it a bug in Perl::MinimumVersion 1.38 that perlver claimed my test suite was compatible with 5.6.0?
    3. Should I just skip the portions of my test suite that require the '<&'? Or should I try to find an alternate?
    4. Easy way to get 5.6.0 on Windows? (Alternately, pre-made virtual machine with 5.6.0?)

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