Real life story: I wanted to make one of my modules as backwards-compatible as possible, so I installed various versions of perl to try it (including 5.8.0, 5.6.1, 5.004_05, and 5.005_03). After removing all use of the newest features such as our, I found that the oldest, pre-5.6 versions of perl crashed (as in segfault) when running my code (perhaps I was using features that were experimental at the time, but still syntactically valid?). My conclusion: I won't care about supporting ancient versions of Perl, so I can use our happily. One thing is to avoid new features, but it just takes too much time to work around the various bugs in ancient perls.

In reply to Re: Use of 'our' considered harmful by itub
in thread Use of 'our' considered harmful by DrHyde

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