RE: [pdb-dev]Using Perl 5.6 as the standard PerlDB base

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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Andy Duncan wrote:

> latest DBD-RAM, that version of Perl works for me.  I don't know if 5.6 gives
> us anything particularly critical for our effort, except perhaps bug fixes for
> earlier Perl releases?  I'm trying to follow Jeff Zucker's amazing work as

Some things that might be nice include:

Unicode support (not quite there yet but hopefully getting better in a
future 5.6.x release)

lexical warnings

our (to replace use vars)


Of those, I'd say the first is potentially very useful (though not fully
implemented), the second would be very nice to have, and the third is nice
but not compelling in and of itself.


-dave

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