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- From: mmuegel@next3.corp.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
- Subject: Re: Perl IV & V incompatibilities?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.055332.7349@ftpbox.mot.com>
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- Organization: Corporate Information Office, Schaumburg, Illinois, Motorola, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec17.175420.19745@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:53:32 GMT
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- Previously, lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles) wrote:
- >
- > I'm getting a little bit scared about Perl V - I have lots of Perl IV code
- > and I'm scared that it'll all have to be rewritten when I move to Perl V.
- >
-
- I am hoping that innovation and change does not come at the expense of
- backwards compatibility myself. It is very easy to ensure that your
- Perl4.x programs keep working when Perl5 comes out. You can just
- explicitly call out a version of Perl ala:
-
- #!/usr/bin/perl4.035
-
- Then just keep this version of Perl on your system along with Perl5.
-
- -Mike
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