I installed perl 5.36.0 and I tried updating my starting "template" to use v5.36; rather than use 5.010;: 
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use v5.36;     # was 'use 5.010;'
#use warnings; # unnecessary now!
use strict;
no if $] >= 5.018, warnings => "experimental::smartmatch";
use Getopt::Std;
my %opts;
getopts( 'hvi:', \%opts ) or die "getopts failed\n";
my $verbose;
my $infile;
while ( my ( $k, $v ) = each %opts ) {
    given ($k) {                # <-- line 13
        when ('h') { ...; }
        when ('v') { ++$verbose; }
        when ('i') { $infile = $v; }
        default { die "*** BUG: no handler for -$k.\n"; }
    }
}

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It now gets the following compilation errors: 
syntax error at /Users/chap/private/perl/t0 line 13, near ") {"
syntax error at /Users/chap/private/perl/t0 line 15, near ") {"
Global symbol "$v" requires explicit package name (did you forget to d
+eclare "my $v"?) at /Users/chap/private/perl/t0 line 16.
Execution of /Users/chap/private/perl/t0 aborted due to compilation er
+rors.

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I know that given is still experimental (and unpopular), but I thought it was still supported by 5.36. Also, suddenly missing the declaration of $v is weird. Anyone know what's going on?

Update: also, what would be the modern way to write that loop?

In reply to v5.36 syntax error around given/when by ibm1620

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