One of the recent releases of perl made it so referring to an undefined array in a string (eg: "Email me at user@host.com") no longer produce the error:

In string, @host now must be written as \@host.

I think that's great, however, while I no longer get that error locally, I get it when I upload scripts to client servers.

So my question is, is there anything I can turn on to get this error again locally?

Note: Upgrading isn't an option. Some of the clients are hosted with companies like AT&T (who runs 5.00404) and have one year contracts. So, aside from running an old version of perl locally, I'm all out of ideas. Anyone have any suggestions?

In reply to In string, @var now must (NOT) be written as \@var by Davious

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