Monks, I was just trying to install CPANPLUS on my hosted shell account, and it errored out because on my particular Linux build, use constant a => sub {}; has problems.

I've never seen this idiom before, and not that much experience on unix. Should I be worried? Is this an important feature of perl, and/or an issue that will likely cause further annoynance, beyond just not being able to install cpanplus? Or is it no big deal?

Thanks for shedding light!

(See Can/should I run an upgraded version of perl locally, on a shared web server where I don't have root? for original question and Re^2: Can/should I run an upgraded version of perl locally, on a shared web server where I don't have root? for where I noted that the problem was perl 5.8 on my particular linux version, not that perl 5.8 was too early a version as I originally mistakenly thought. The second link also quotes from the part of the makefile that was causing problems when I tried to install.)

In reply to How important is 'use constant a => sub {};' by tphyahoo

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