I knew I had seen the assertion that qr started in 5.6.0 somewhere
recently and finally found it:
"Perl 5.6.0 introduced the ability to package up regular expressions
into variables using the qr// operator."
[From Simon Cozen's article on regexps
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/06/regexps.html]
So... given that you have it working on 5.00503 he is clearly in
error.
Does anyone know of a quick reference to show what new syntax was
introduced with a given release?
-ben
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Rick Measham wrote:
>
> > At 4:28 PM -0500 11/6/03, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> > >5.00503 is the goal for all DateTime modules, and anyone writing a DT
> > >module should have a damn good reason for _not_ supporting it. qr// does
> > >indeed work with 5.00503.
> >
> >
> > Since when?
> >
> > "This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd"
> >
> > I went through seven stage of hell trying to get it installed. IIRC I
> > had to hack Time::Local. Can't remember though, all I remember is
> > that it wasn't just a case of perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make
> > install.
> >
> > Does anyone have a legacy system they can try to install on?
>
> Yeah, me. DT.pm uses qr// internally and I always run tests on 5.00503,
> 5.6.1, and 5.8.0 before each release.
>
>
> -dave
>
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