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...erl 5.8 features for a few years yet, since the remaining CentOS 5 boxes I?m supporting can?t be upgraded and won?t likely be turned off until they fall over dead. That makes Perl 5.10 ?the future? from my perspective. Living in the past seldwhen is a good idea. > If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn?t be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a ?stable? type of OS from a ?bleeding edge? one. When a version of a software has been released 20 years ago, that doesn?t mean it?s more stable than a version of that software which is being released today. Of course,...

Hi, are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the state feature is required.

...t, which means I?ll probably still be limited to Perl 5.8 features for a few years yet, since the remaining CentOS 5 boxes I?m supporting can?t be upgraded and won?t likely be turned off until they fall over dead. That makes Perl 5.10 ?the future? from my perspective. If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn?t be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a ?stable? type of OS from a ?bleeding edge? one. > At least the state feature is required. According to the docs,[*] that feature has been in Perl since 5.10. This appears to confirm it: $ perl -e "use fea...

> > > If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn?t > > be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a ?stable? type of OS > > from a ?bleeding edge? one. > > When a version of a software has been released 20 years ago, > that doesn?t mean it?s more stable than a version of that > software whi...

...n tendency would not be to use one of those 40-cent micros, it would instead be to put a gigahertz class Linux PC in its place, with all the concomitant risks. Try getting a modern Internet worm into a PDP-8! Good luck not blowing the 4k word field boundary. >> If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn?t be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a ?stable? type of OS from a ?bleeding edge? one. > > When a version of a software has been released 20 years ago, Eleven: https://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2006/perl-5.8.8.html ?which makes it younger than the C89...

I've read the back and forth this morning, and I have to side with Vince. 1. Functions that re-interpret their arguments are very dangerous. The original question involved a well formed call to a function, which returned the wrong answer. Bug, design flaw, whatever -- it's a mistake and the best choice would be to fix it. I only consider such behavior in 2 cases: a. when the