Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:50:05 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19971201075005.16797@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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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As Francisco Reyes wrote: > >(*) Don't rely on this version, and better write your scripts so they > >can work under both, Perl 4 and 5. > > What do you mean by not relying on that version? That the base system's Perl will be upgraded to Perl 5 some day. So don't write scripts with unescaped @'s in strings, etc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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