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FYI. I tried the code from Stocks, Perl & Gambling Game without errors. My setup was:

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P:\test>perl58 -c -MUsed stock.pl8
d:/Perl/lib/AutoLoader.pm                                    : 5.59
d:/Perl/lib/Carp.pm                                          : 1.01
d:/Perl/lib/Config.pm                                        : N/A
d:/Perl/lib/Cwd.pm                                           : 2.06
d:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm                                    : 1.04
d:/Perl/lib/Exporter.pm                                      : 5.566
d:/Perl/lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm                                : 5.566
d:/Perl/lib/Fcntl.pm                                         : 1.04
d:/Perl/lib/File/Spec.pm                                     : 0.83
d:/Perl/lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm                                : N/A
d:/Perl/lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm                               : N/A
d:/Perl/lib/FileHandle.pm                                    : 2.01
d:/Perl/lib/IO.pm                                            : 1.20
d:/Perl/lib/IO/File.pm                                       : 1.09
d:/Perl/lib/IO/Handle.pm                                     : 1.21
d:/Perl/lib/IO/Seekable.pm                                   : 1.08
d:/Perl/lib/POSIX.pm                                         : 1.05
d:/Perl/lib/SelectSaver.pm                                   : 1.00
d:/Perl/lib/Symbol.pm                                        : 1.04
d:/Perl/lib/Time/Local.pm                                    : 1.04
d:/Perl/lib/XSLoader.pm                                      : 0.01
d:/Perl/lib/auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix                          : N/A
d:/Perl/lib/auto/POSIX/load_imports.al                       : N/A
d:/Perl/lib/base.pm                                          : 1.03
d:/Perl/lib/constant.pm                                      : 1.04
d:/Perl/lib/integer.pm                                       : 1.00
d:/Perl/lib/overload.pm                                      : 1.00
d:/Perl/lib/strict.pm                                        : 1.02
d:/Perl/lib/vars.pm                                          : 1.01
d:/Perl/lib/warnings.pm                                      : 1.00
d:/Perl/lib/warnings/register.pm                             : 1.00
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD.pm                                       : 2.07 *
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph.pm                                 : 1.43 *
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph/Data.pm                            : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph/Error.pm                           : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph/axestype.pm                        : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph/colour.pm                          : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph/lines.pm                           : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Graph/utils.pm                           : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Text.pm                                  : 0.86 *
d:/Perl/site/lib/GD/Text/Align.pm                            : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/HTTP/Date.pm                                : 1.44
d:/Perl/site/lib/HTTP/Headers.pm                             : 1.43
d:/Perl/site/lib/HTTP/Message.pm                             : 1.25
d:/Perl/site/lib/HTTP/Request.pm                             : 1.30
d:/Perl/site/lib/HTTP/Response.pm                            : 1.36
d:/Perl/site/lib/HTTP/Status.pm                              : 1.26
d:/Perl/site/lib/LWP.pm                                      : 5.65
d:/Perl/site/lib/LWP/Debug.pm                                : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/LWP/MemberMixin.pm                          : N/A
d:/Perl/site/lib/LWP/Protocol.pm                             : 1.39
d:/Perl/site/lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm                            : 2.003
d:/Perl/site/lib/URI.pm                                      : 1.19
d:/Perl/site/lib/URI/Escape.pm                               : 3.20
d:/Perl/site/lib/Used.pm                                     : 0.01
stock.pl8 syntax OK
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The modules I've marked (*) are the most lightly candidates for being at a different level I think.

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In reply to Re: Active State Perl 5.8 Application Error by BrowserUk
in thread Active State Perl 5.8 Application Error by djbiv

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