Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:47:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: shigio@wafu.netgate.net (Shigio Yamaguchi), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: htags fails. Message-ID: <8967.892540029@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:59:56 -0000." <199804140159.SAA05892@usr06.primenet.com>
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> Because Perl 5 is not backward compatible in various areas, and people > have scripts that depend on the old syntax, which break under the new > (gratuitously changed for no good reason) syntax. Actually, all of those are pretty much fixed now and the REAL reason we haven't gone to Perl5 yet in the base tree is that nobody has done the work of converting it to bmake/contrib format. :) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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