>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:14:44 +0100 (BST) writes:
BDR> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:
>> > What version of perl?
>>
>> Ack, didn't realize it was this ancient. Version 5.005_03, which is what
>> comes with FreeBSD 4.9 apparently. I did install the /usr/ports version
>> of perl is 5.8.2, although there seems to be other problems here (which
>> are most likely related to my system, will track that down before bringing
>> that issue up - it appears to be a mismatch on my libraries between the
>> two versions).
BDR> Yes, that version of perl has a lot of bugs, but in theory we support it.
BDR> (It seems worse than either 5.004 or 5.005_04.)
>> > print $latexout &latex_link_trans0($blocks{"name"});
>> > will probably solve it for you.
>>
>> Yup, this works, thanks.
BDR> I've changed the sources, to be defensive. I don't like reading Perl
BDR> like that, but it does work more portably.
I'm glad for the change.
Our redhat enterprise version of perl (5.8.0) also couldn't deal
with the other syntax.
Martin
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