[Bioperl-l] use warnings

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

I knew this but forgot. I'll revert.

Thanks Aron,

	-Heikki

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:57, Aaron J Mackey wrote:
> I noticed in the breeze of fixups from Heikki that a few of them were
> replacements of the -w flag with use warnings.  I like "use warnings" but
> there is an issue with older perls.  I've copied a recent posting on
> perl5-porters about possible solutions that will work with older perls:
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 26 Mar 2003 10:01:57 +0100
> From: Slaven Rezic <slaven at rezic.de>
> To: Nicholas Clark <nick at unfortu.net>
> Cc: perl5-porters at perl.org, Simon Wistow <simon at thegestalt.org>
> Subject: Re: PREREQ_PM => { warnings => 0 }
> 
> Nicholas Clark <nick at unfortu.net> writes:
> 
> > Following a thread on the london.pm list:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:54:28AM +0000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> > > Could somebody release warnings to CPAN as a standalone (even if it was
> > > effectively a no-op if v < 5.6) and then people could remove the require
> > > perl.5.6.0 from their code?
> >
> > I think that this idea is worthy of discussion. What would be wrong with
> > releasing a dummy warnings module to CPAN, so that putting use warnings;
> > in a module doesn't also mandate require 5.006; ?
> >
> > People like use warnings; but often it's about the only think that forces
> > the minimum perl version required up to 5.6. If this could be made to work
> > then people can have their cake and eat it.
> 
> You could already use the if.pm module:
> 
>     use if $] >= 5.006, 'warnings';
> 
> > I think I can see one problem - warnings.pm in 5.6.0 has no $VERSION
> > But is that a fatal flaw?
> >
> 
> Regards,
> 	Slaven
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