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• 5.6? (Score:1)

  by educated_foo (3106)

  IMHO you should definitely support 5.8, since it's the default Perl on the latest (or recent) versions of many distributions. I'm not sure 5.6 is worth the trouble, but then again, I can't think of anything in 5.8 that's radically new (e.g. given/when, dor).
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    I can't think of anything in 5.8 that's radically new (e.g. given/when, dor).

    Working Unicode, more and updated core modules, bugfixes, much better testing....
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by educated_foo (3106)

      I mean nothing "radically new" in the sense that it makes your module totally unusable on an older Perl without. For example, I recently wanted to try out Parse::Marpa, but the author uses given/when all over the place. This makes it unusable without 5.10, without providing additional functionality (and with a marginal-at-best improvement in readability).

      New core modules? They're on CPAN. "Working" Unicode? Great if you need it (I don't), but the interface hasn't changed, has it? Testsing and bugfix
      • Re:5.6? (Score:1)

        by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2008.06.27 19:14 (#63665) Homepage Journal

        Unicode support is a deal-breaker as far as I’m concerned. That the interface superficially hasn’t changed doesn’t matter – it didn’t work prior to 5.8. The identical interface means I don’t have to change my code to make it run and fail to work properly on 5.6. Uhm, hooray.

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        • Re: (Score:1)

          by educated_foo (3106)

          No, it means that you don't have to change your code to make it work all the time with ASCII or Latin-1, and a lot (or at least some) of the time with Unicode.