Re: CPerl and Perl 5.10.x

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

On 2009-09-29, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>>> If there's a list of problems with your code, do you have a reference
>>> (message-ID, whatever) to help me start somewhere?

>>Basically, one has a lot of obsolete variables/functions used (with
>>wrappers to avoid warnings), and (` ) etc is used a lot.  Do not
>>remember any specific message, but I may try to locate (10-years old?)
>>discussion related to the coding style.

> For us all, could you say something about "using wrappers to avoid
> warnings"?

Nothing fancy.  IIRC, I use (funcall ) to call obsolete functions.
eval-when-compile may define a certain macro which expands to either
old backward-compatible syntax, or new no-warnings syntax depending on
the version.

[People rarely realize what a strange mixture of obsoleteness and
flaming edge is present in scientific institutions (those where there
is a system administrator supporting individual stations).  Of
course, little may compare with my house ;-]

Yours,
Ilya