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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** < vadim.konovalov@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > > From: Alexander Hartmaier [mailto:alex.hartmaier@gmail.com] > > so I've simply attached it instead. > > IMO - "modernization" must remove all mentions of "as of perl 5.6.0" > This phrase actually suggest that user sometimes uses 5.005 and is > afraid of version compatibility between these..... > > OTOH 5.005 didn't had "open my $fh", hence - this is dubtless an overlook. > > Here are examples from attached patch, but original "pod" probably has > many more: > > > perl-5.6.x introduced a version of piped open that executes a process > > > C<open>'s first argument can be a reference to a filehandle. As of > -perl 5.6.0, if the argument is uninitialized, Perl will automatically > +Perl 5.6.0, if the argument is uninitialized, Perl will automatically > create a filehandle and put a reference to it in the first argument, > like so: > Thanks for reviewing my patch. I agree with the Perl 5.6 references being not helpful in a tutorial, I'll remove them in my next version of the patch. > > (IMO upcasing "perl" to "Perl" is a user preference - which do not > coincide with mine, and I would be more happy if other opinions are > respected and such places kept unchanged) > In the above case it was the only lowercase occurrence of "perl' and some words later in the sentence Perl was spelled uppercase, I just wanted to have the same capitalization to not confuse readers. > > BR, > Vadim.Thread Previous | Thread Next