Change 5868
Port P4Perl to Perl 5.8.8.
This change is spectacularly ugly,
but then so are the innards of Perl. See the long thread at:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/06/msg114383.html
for details of the problem, and some discussion of solutions. I've
had to come up with a solution that doesn't involve patching people's
Perl installations, so my fix is even less easy on the eye but it
appears to work, and hopefully hasn't broken things for older
Perl versions.
This change is spectacularly ugly,
but then so are the innards of Perl. See the long thread at:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/06/msg114383.html
for details of the problem, and some discussion of solutions. I've
had to come up with a solution that doesn't involve patching people's
Perl installations, so my fix is even less easy on the eye but it
appears to work, and hopefully hasn't broken things for older
Perl versions.
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