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Abigail wrote: > If security is an issue, I think the safest way is to tell people *NOW*. > Patch the documentation if you think it's not clear enough. Write articles > on Perlmonks. Send errata to book publishers. Speak at a conference. > Surely that would beat waiting for everyone to upgrade to 5.12. I think they don't conflict: patch the docs for 5.8.9 and 5.10.1, and the code for 5.12. The problem with informing the people out there is that you don't reach the bulk of perl programmers. Most aren't involved in the community at all, don't read perlmonks, don't read use.perl.org, don't attend conferences. That's easy to forget for somebody who is active in the community and meets all those people who are active as well. Hell, if they know about basic use of <> already they won't read the documentation again, even when they upgrade to the next perl version. (I programmed in perl for about 3 or 4 years before having any contact to the community. And I didn't know about ARGV's magic. During $work I made contact with a few other perl programmers in similar circumstances). MoritzThread Previous