Hi hennesse,

Many of the examples in the 5.24 perldsc just do not work.

... there seems to have been a lot of changes since 5.12

There have been a few changes since v5.12 (for example, the addition of the Postfix Dereference Syntax and Key/Value Hash Slices, and for a while there was the experimental and now-removed "autoderef" feature), but as far as I can remember they've all been backwards compatible (and perldsc hasn't had any significant changes in the code examples for 15 years). Could you point out the examples in perldsc that don't work for you?

Thanks,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^2: Perl 5.12.2 Data Structures by haukex
in thread Perl 5.12.2 Data Structures by hennesse

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