Re: •Re: Inconsistencies between Perl versions

And how in the world are you still running 5.1? There are known security holes in that code! I hope you're not facing the internet with a CGI script running that version.

Well, we're using a combination of 5.001 and 5.004 - I guess it's seen as easier to keep legacy scripts working, rather than risk an upgrade and having misson-critical scripts fail. To be honest, I don't know :)

We're not using it for CGI, it's all internal, in-house scripting basically just to munge some data and dump out reports.

Thanks for the reply, though, I didn't know "my" on a foreach was introduced so recently :)

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Re: Re: •Re: Inconsistencies between Perl versions by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 30, 2003 at 13:52 UTC
I guess it's seen as easier to keep legacy scripts working, rather than risk an upgrade and having misson-critical scripts fail. Tell us that again after you've had to deal with the aftermath of someone taking advantage of one of the n-plus year old holes. Of course I'm terrible about changing the oil in my car, so I don't have much room to lecture on the virtue of preventiveness. :)	[reply]