Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:13:18 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19971201081318.21212@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199712010407.UAA11973@super.zippo.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 11:07:23PM -0400 References: <199712010407.UAA11973@super.zippo.com>
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According to Francisco Reyes: > What do you mean by not relying on that version? It may disappear anytime. Fortunately, there are not that many Perl4 thingies that makes Perl5 puke so 95% of the scripts written for Perl4 work out of the box in Perl5 (the 5% includes @ inside strings and a few things described in perltrap(1)). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #18: Tue Nov 25 22:32:12 CET 1997
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