Wild. I just have two questions: 1) Why did Perl ever accept uppercase operators in the first place? I see that if you run under warnings, you get a "use of EQ is deprecated" error, so I assume it's some usage so historical as to be before my time (and I've been doing Perl for almost twelve years).
2) Even if the uppercase forms were available, why would anyone use them? Trey In a message dated Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Ray Zimmerman writes: > For those who may not have seen this ... > > ><http://www.macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=02/10/23/1513202&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=8> > > .... it appears that perl 5.6 will accept 'EQ' and 'NE' as valid > syntax, but perl-5.8.0 requires them to be lower-case. Some of the > scripts used in the installation of the QuickTime 6.0.2 update use > the upper-case versions and cause problems (the upgrade installation > fails due to syntax errors in the postflight script). > > I switched my /usr/bin/perl to point to the original perl-5.6.0 and > it installed fine. The above web-site tells you how to fix the > scripts to work with perl-5.8.0. > >
