On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:44:00PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > The reason to do this is to be able to use features released with perl > in the last decade, 5.10 was a major feature release including things > like new regex features, state variables, the defined-or operator > etc.[3] > > I expect this to be more controversial as since the 5.8 release stayed > along for longer in various distributions, e.g. it's the version > shipped with RHEL 5, replaced by 5.10 in RHEL 6 released in late 2010, > similarly the first Debian release to include 5.10 was 5.0 (Lenny) > released in early 2009. The release history for other distributions > can be seen on CPAN's "Perl Binaries" page[3]. This is fine by me. As far as I know, 5.10.1 is the oldest version of Perl still security-supported by a major Linux vendor. Feature-wise, the release I'd much rather see is 5.14, since it provides the r modifier to s/// and tr/// and undef-transparent length, but that simply won't be possible until RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 go EOL. Upgrading to 5.10 is better than nothing, and it does get us defined-or, which is one of the only 5.10 features I ever see used. I'm curious, though, is there some reason you went with the "v5.10.0" syntax other than "5.010"? I believe the latter provides a better error message on older Perls, although I agree the former is more readable. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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