Ben Bennett:
> 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.
Ah, bother. perl5005delta confirms that this is indeed a 5.5ism. I've
obviously been hacking Perl longer than I remember; I was under the impression
it was one of the things that came in the 5.005_5x devel series.
Sorry for the misleading info.
Simon
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