zigdon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but what could it possibly be? 
$ perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect -e 1 
Modification of a read-only value attempted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.8.0/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm line 140.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
zsh: exit 255   perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect -e 1

$ perl -v 

This is perl, v5.8.3 built for i386-freebsd
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Seems that it's related to perl 5.8.x? Tried on two linux boxes, got the same error with 5.8.4, and it worked properly with 5.6.1. So what's wrong with this picture? I ran into this when trying to get Class::DBI::Loader::Relationship to work for Maypole. Any hints welcome!

-- zigdon

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Re: Lingua::EN::Inflect broken with 5.8.x?
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 15, 2004 at 13:59 UTC
    I get no problem with 5.8.0 on RH 9. Which version of L::E::I are you using? Is it the latest?

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      That was the problem. Using the latest (1.88) corrected the problem. I currently had 1.85 installed. Thanks!

      -- zigdon

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Re: Lingua::EN::Inflect broken with 5.8.x?
by Joost (Canon) on Jul 15, 2004 at 14:45 UTC
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