Re: Backward compatibility: $^O in perl 4

It's been a few hours since I used Perl4, but what is he doing that is system-dependent to the point that he needs to worry about uname?

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Re: Re: Backward compatibility: $^O in perl 4 by bronto (Priest) on May 07, 2003 at 14:01 UTC
I thought it was obvious from the question: the OS name, for example... and the OS version The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway). --John M. Dlugosz	[reply]