> >>Is this going to be a problem for anyone on a Non-windows/Mac platform?
>
> Yep. My main concern is the myriad of Linux distributions.

Anything at all recent will have perl 5.8 on it.


Which means,

Debian users that are still on 'stable' will be using perl 5.6

And Redhat's 7->8->9->Fedora transition path of horrors stranded alot
of people back on 7.3 with perl 5.6


SuSE/Gentoo/Mandrake/Slackware have been alot kinder to their users
and more of them are likely on the latest version or two which have
5.8.1+

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