mjd-perl-pm on Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:26:46 -0400


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Re: for my ...


Meng says:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:28:06PM -0400, mjd-perl-pm@plover.com wrote:
> | 
> | 'for my' was introduced in 5.6.0.  Before that, it was illegal.  If
> | you got an error message from 5.6.0, it was because of some other
> | error.
> 
> sorry to nitpick, but i think it worked in 5.005 also.

My mistake---I based my answer on a grep through many different
versions of 'perlsyn'.  "for my" was introduced as early as 5.005_02
(August 1998) but for some reason it wasn't mentioned in perlsyn until
5.6.0.  I should have checked more carefully.

Thanks for the correction.
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