From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 22:52:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA12198 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA12186 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id HAA29820 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:52:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id HAA09866; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:50:05 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971201075005.16797@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:50:05 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199712010407.UAA11973@super.zippo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199712010407.UAA11973@super.zippo.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 11:07:23PM -0400 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)