Nicholas Clark wrote in perl.pod-people :
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:56:30AM -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote:
>> So I got to thinking -- I could easily backport this, i.e., easily change 
>> this code to run under older Perls, so that the decent number of people 
>> still labouring with 5.005 installs of perl could at least have a nice 
>> modern perldoc if they wanted it.
>> 
>> Can anyone see any reason not to do this?
> 
> If it's easy for you to do, and you're up for it, go for it. I think that it
> would be a good idea.

You could even provide a patch against perl 5.6.1. Backporting perldoc
myself scares me.

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