[Bioperl-l] $@#!$! backwards compatibility

[Aaron J Mackey]

try if(File::Spec->can('tempdir')) { ... }

-Aaron

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:

> in perl 5.6.0 'exists' can be used to test if a method exists.  ie
> exists(&File::Spec::tempdir)
> but not in 5.004.  Does anyone know how else we can test this.  I am not
> really keen on doing:
>
> eval {
> 	return File::Temp::tempdir(@args);
> };
> if( $@ ) {
> 	....
> }
>
> but I will if there is no other way.
>
> Jason Stajich
> jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
> Center for Human Genetics
> Duke University Medical Center
> http://www.chg.duke.edu/
>
>
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