Re^2: Stop suggesting to upgrade perl

If some task is impossible to implement for specified version range, one should mention that (and possibly explain), instead of recomending to upgrade to random (or latest) version.

There is also difference between "upgrade perl" and "raise minumum perl version requirement", former is indication that person think there is only once instance of code, and, perhaps, recommends just a random new version.

Unicode in Perl works mostly fine since 5.8.8.

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Re^3: Stop suggesting to upgrade perl by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 31, 2013 at 20:14 UTC
Unicode in Perl works mostly fine since 5.8.8. Except for the "Unicode bug", which was solved a bit later. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^4: Stop suggesting to upgrade perl by vsespb (Chaplain) on Aug 31, 2013 at 20:42 UTC
Except for the "Unicode bug", which was solved a bit later. Which is not a big problem: perlunicode For Perls earlier than those described above, or when a string is passed to a function outside the subpragma's scope, a workaround is to always call utf8::upgrade($string) Anyway, there is an example of node, where, thankfully, people did not suggested me to upgrade perl: Force ASCII regexp for all perls 5.8+ (perhaps because perl version was in post title)	[reply]