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Put "use 5.010" in your Makefile.PL and you won't see the failures from older Perl installs.


Yes, because they won't be running there. Maybe you like to target one version back, but there's a lot of systems out there running old Perls, and I don't see why I shouldn't be writing for the largest audience possible.


I don't see why I shouldn't be writing for the largest audience possible

Could your audience also be limited by the fact that your modules are IRC bots and bindings to XML parsers that already have bindings? :)


Oh, snap, I guess you win that argument.




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