Re: Perldoc and backporting

2003-08-01 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:56:30AM -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote: So I got to thinking -- I could easily backport this, i.e., easily change this code to run under older Perls, so that the decent number of people still labouring with 5.005 installs of perl could at least have a nice modern

Perldoc and backporting

2003-07-25 Thread Sean M. Burke
As I was looking over the Pod/Perldoc.pm code the other day (in order to make the long-long-long-delayed release), I noted that it used just a few constructs that would stop it from running under, say, Perl 5.00404. There was one qr/.../ (which I could work around very easily), and maybe six