1) 'our' is not deprecated. it is new. i know it was in
5.6.0, not sure if it was in earlier than that. u can check
the CHANGES file to see exactly when it was added.
2) this is really a perl question, not a mod_perl question. next time
try one of the following for perl related help:
http://www.perlmonks.org/
news://comp.lang.perl.moderated
news://comp.lang.perl.misc
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"Alan E. Derhaag" wrote:
> I upgraded to v5.6.1 of perl and viewed the documentation for the
> Getopt::Std as I wasn't familiar with its use for command line
> arguments on a new install function I was building. The docs indicate
> use of our( $opt_foo, $opt_bar ) should 'use strict vars' be in use.
> I wasn't familiar with this deprecated version of global variable
> definitions but I used it.. much to my chagrin when the install was
> actually performed on a perl v5.05003 equipped machine.
>
> How did an older version of Getopt::Std get installed with a later
> version of perl?
