Here's a message I sent to cpan-testers, but with the volume of reports to that list, I doubt anyone on it has time left from deleting the messages to respond.
I got one failure with 5.6.2 and passes with 5.8. The problem appears to be the constant pragma, which doesn't seem to have an independent contemporary existence on CPAN. Module::CoreList tells me that it was 1.02 in 5.6, and 1.04 in the 5.8.3 I developed my module on. How do you find out what can be done in older perls? The message to cpan-testers: With reference to: http://www.mail-archive.com/cpan-testers%40perl.org/msg398745.html How do I go about finding out what the problem is here? PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.6.2/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00-load.........# Failed test (t/00-load.t at line 20) # Tried to use 'Games::Tournament::Swiss::Procedure::FIDE'. # Error: Constant name 'HASH(0x821c714)' has invalid characters at /home/david/_/_/perl-5.6.2/.cpan/build/Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.03/blib/lib/Gam es/Tournament/Swiss/Procedure/FIDE.pm line 16 # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/david/_/_/perl-5.6.2/.cpan/build/Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.03/blib/lib/Gam es/Tournament/Swiss/Procedure/FIDE.pm line 40. Because it is not failing on 5.8, I suspect that in 5.6.2 the constants pragma didn't have: Defining multiple constants at once Instead of writing multiple "use constant" statements, you may define multiple constants in a single statement by giving, instead of the con- stant name, a reference to a hash where the keys are the names of the constants to be defined. Obviously, all constants defined using this method must have a single value. use constant { FOO => "A single value", BAR => "This", "won’t", "work!", # Error! }; Line 16 of my module is: use constant { C1 => 'C1', C2 => 'C2', and it continues on this way to line 40. PREV => "PREV", COLORS => "COLORS", }; What do I do now? constants doesn't seem to have a contemporary existence on CPAN distinct from perl. -- Dr Bean -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
