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Re: More patching! Less whining!

From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
April 2, 2000 01:34
Subject:
Re: More patching! Less whining!
Message ID:
38E7135D.4E8AF4D0@uk.sun.com
> That is doubly not true:
> 1. The use of bare 'na' etc. has been deprecated since 5.005-ish.
> 2. There is a work round by setting POLLUTE - so compatibility _is_ built in.

I've worked around this in the past by doing the following:

#ifndef PL_na
#define PL_na na
#endif

#ifndef PL_sv_undef
#define PL_sv_undef sv_undef
#endif

To provide backwards compatibility with old perls.  This works fine in
5.005_03, but breaks in 5.6.0.  What is the correct incantation that
preserves backwards compatibility?

Alan Burlison

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