Re: Compatiblity with older perls

You're overreacting. Perl 5.005 wasn't that primitive compared to 5.8.x. The major differences of 5.005 towards 5.8.x in my mind (I could be overlooking some) are:

No support for Unicode/UTF-8 whatsoever
No our — use use vars instead.

I was thinking of the 4th argument to substr too, but apparentlythat was already part of 5.005.

If I were you, I'd focus on these two, first. I can't say I've ever used one of the other newer features.

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Re: Re: Compatiblity with older perls by etcshadow (Priest) on Apr 06, 2004 at 21:43 UTC
Yeah... more than anything, I'd say that `our ( $var1, @var2, %var3 );` versus `use vars qw( $var1 @var2 %var3 );` is the biggest issue in code compatibility back to 5.005. Always a good place to start looking. `------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Compatiblity with older perls by eserte (Deacon) on Apr 07, 2004 at 08:44 UTC
Also, "use warnings" is very popular in newer modules, but not available for perl 5.005.	[reply]