On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:09:31AM +0200, Chris Travers wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 3:23 AM, R. Ransbottom <rir...@comcast.net> wrote:
> IIRC, given/when is deprecated again :-P That supports either argument. > Yeah, my experience is a lot of features don't need to be turned on which > can lead to accidental problems if you have a version that is too old. The > // operator is one that has bitten me in the past. > My understanding is that what the use version statement does is enable a > set of features associated with a given Perl version or higher. No. 'use v5.10.0;' will by default disable later features like 'fc' in higher versions. You can still use them if you know they are there. > But some > parse-level constructs are not affected. Yes. > So my view here is that we document minimal supported Perl versions. We > don't enforce this with a use VERSION statement. We use VERSION as needed > for our code and that is it. I don't understand your meaning. When would use VERSION be needed? How can it be used without enforcement? Yes, we can catch an exception and do something else, but then why bother--just do the something else. Be well, Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list Ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
