This was fixed in perl 5.8, I ought to upload that version (1.02) to CPAN seperately, but until then you can get it at ftp://pthbb.org/pub/pm/FileCache/.

UPDATE: I may have misunderstood what you said. Versions of FileCache prior to 5.8 would, themselves, not compile under strict. this is what I thought you meant. However, it seems likely you were referring to the fact that the current FileCache implementation uses symbolic filehandles and hence requires no strict 'refs'. I have thought of a solution, which has other benefits. Namely, to use IO::Handle. This leads to some difficult decisions though. See my recent posts to perl5-porters for more information.

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