in reply to Perl 5.5 and socket

Using lexicals instead of globs is a feature that came with the 5.6 series. You must use a glob or get a lexical referencing a glob from the Symbol module.

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Re^2: Perl 5.5 and socket
by eserte (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2007 at 18:36 UTC
    Or just increase the requirement of the distribution to 5.6.0: 
    use 5.006;

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    in your Makefile.PL should do it.
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      I may resort to a version limit yet, but for now I simply changed the lexical (it's a small piece of code). Besides, I had to clean up some documentation anyway.

      When the new updates have finished running through tests, I find out how much further I should bother to go with version limiting.
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