From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 23:15:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA13939 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:15:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13933 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.1/nospam) with UUCP id IAA18823 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:14:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id IAA02692; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:13:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19971201081318.21212@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:13:18 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Programming: What if anything is guaranteed to be always in FreeBSD? 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-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3845 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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