Paul Evans on Nostr: There wouldn't be much use for it. A key point about Perl is that you can always run ...
There wouldn't be much use for it. A key point about Perl is that you can always run a later version of the perl interpreter and it still copes with older code. That's what the back-compatibility means. If you have a program that needs 5.40, then just run it with 5.40. Anything built for older perls still works.
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