On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 21:17, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > More concerning is that it's a perl 5.10ism -- you cannot assume that > perl 5.10 is installed on all platforms. I really wouldn't use this > construct. See that's the thing: How am I supposed to know it's a perl 5.10ism? The Perl docs give absolutely no clue; Perl[5] is based way too much on practice rather than theory, because only people that have been using it since day 1 know what's going on. A couple of weeks ago, I went to the perldoc website and just read each website one after the other---that is my total knowledge of Perl, and already I've caught flack a number of times for having used 'new-fangled technologies'; I really wish the docs would specify when a feature became available. ... add that to the list of perldoc shortcomings. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html