# from Greg Matheson
# on Saturday 24 February 2007 09:02 pm:
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.
It isn't dual-lifed, but at least the docs for the old version
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:02:11 +0800
Greg Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a message I sent to cpan-testers, but with the volume of
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Hi. I'm a reader of cpan-testers. I'm using mail
Greg Matheson wrote:
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.
[...]
Because it is not failing on 5.8, I suspect that in 5.6.2 the
constants pragma
didn't have:
On 25 Feb 2007, at 05:02, Greg Matheson wrote:
How do you find out what can be done in older perls?
Is it not possible to build 5.6.2?
Archaeology: this seems to be the birth of use constant:
http://backpan.hexten.net/authors/id/P/PH/PHOENIX/constant-0.01.readme
--
Andy Armstrong,
Greg Matheson wrote:
How do you find out what can be done in older perls?
Andy Armstrong wrote:
Is it not possible to build 5.6.2?
Archaeology: this seems to be the birth of use constant:
http://backpan.hexten.net/authors/id/P/PH/PHOENIX/constant-0.01.readme
5.6.2 is available here:
* Greg Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-25 06:10]:
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
