Re: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden

Thanks to Corion and tybalt89 for their answers - I was nearly there with the former's suggestion with my playing but the latter suggestion would never have crossed my mind as it ('normal' programming language-wise) looks like a completely foreign language - shades of using APL in my past!!! BTW when I said that it threw our system's operation, it wasn't as bad as that (we are testing changes on a non-live system) but it threw our development/testing environment because we couldn't even get it to start due to the non-interpretation of the new script with the Perl version being used. We do know what we are doing. Again many thanks for the assistance. ADB

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Re^2: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden (override) by LanX (Saint) on May 22, 2017 at 18:39 UTC
Sorry I came late, but if you care more about compatibility than speed you could override push et al with backwards compatible functions. See `subs` , perlsub#Overriding-Built-in-Functions and `CORE` . BTW: since I have no access to 5.24 it'll be nice to know what `prototype 'CORE::push'` returns. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} PS: > looks like a completely foreign language - shades of using APL in my past!! calling the new syntax APL-like is an euphemism. I wonder sometimes if P5P has a real long term vision.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Experimental push on scalar now forbidden (override) by kcott (Archbishop) on May 23, 2017 at 07:39 UTC
"BTW: since I have no access to 5.24 it'll be nice to know what `prototype 'CORE::push'` returns." `$ perl -v \| head -2 \| tail -1 This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for darwin-th +read-multi-2level $ perl -le 'print prototype "CORE::push"' \@@` [download] — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]