in reply to Re: cpan install($_) doesn't work in loop, but normal lexical var does
in thread cpan install($_) doesn't work in loop, but normal lexical var does

Is your ExtUtils::MakeMaker older than 6.18? parse_version used to blow away an existing $_. (I just discovered that this morning, in fact.)

-xdg

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