in reply to Re^8: Why should I use perl 5.10?
in thread Why should I use perl 5.10?

I believe it was you who talked (to me) about substr() lvalues in the first place, and about the fixed length limitation.

Yes. Though it was turning up the link to it on your home page that led me back to it when I just went looking :)

Now I should be able to go back and revisit the code I was working on when I made the discovery of the limitation...if my push down stack of current stuff ever permits it.

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