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in thread A curious case of of my()

> It depends what you call "rather new". It was introduced in December 2007, when 5.10 hit the street.

Hmm, for me: "System Perl available on a majority of running systems for more than 1 or 2 years".¹

So you have to add the average time span between system installations and lag of update into distributions for an approximation.

> More than 3 years, and the almost the life-span of 2 major releases - not something I would call "rather new".

I still do! Only a minority of users update their Perl to the newest release ASAP.

But I agree that it's only a weak "rather".

Cheers Rolf

1) or in other words: If it doesn't work, you can blame the system admin!

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