I guess they're trying to make their code as compatible as possible with perl's before 5.6 and strangely written modules, but it does seem rather cargo-cultish. On a side note: perl 5.6 has been out a long time, so I don't really see the point. Why would someone run something new like Subversion, and not bother to upgrade their ancient Perl? Upgrading parts of your system while other parts are left to rot in legacy mode just seems like trouble.


I think it might be jumping the gun to call that "cargo cult". There are probably lots of corporations out there who don't make upgrading perl a priority. I don't see why (if you had the time) you wouldn't include such a line.

In reply to Re^2: $^W or require warnings and import warnings; by Transient
in thread $^W or require warnings and import warnings; by szabgab

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