Hi Guys,
   I've hit a problem installing one of my scripts on a server. The guy is running perl version 5.00503. It's having problems with each time I've used the "our" declaration for variables.

I update my code often so changing every occurance of our to my manually or using a script isn't favorable and I'd have to do it each time I update them (and I'm bound to forget).

I'm going to try to get his host to upgrade to perl version 5.8 or 5.6. But if they don't what I would like to be able to do is add a piece of code to the top of each script which:-
1. Checks in the our definition is avaiable.
2. If it isn't creates an our definition that sits on my so in effect acts as my.


Please help


Lyle

In reply to Problems with 'our' definition with perl 5.00503 by cosmicperl

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