Why can't I use "say" with version 5.14

[John Black]

perl -v reveals that I have version 5.14 installed but the "say" command does not work unless
I include this line:

use feature ':5.10';

Shouldn't 5.10 features already be default in 5.14??

John Black

 

[John Black]

No. That's the whole point of feature.pm: you might already have a
pre-5.10 program which uses a 'say' sub, and if 5.10 (or 5.14) turned
the builtin on by default that program would stop working.

From 5.10 onwards, 'use 5.010' will call 'use feature ":5.10"' in
addition to the compile-time check for perl 5.10. The same applies for
later versions of perl. This means you can put 'use VERSION' at the top
of each file along with strict and warnings and that file will continue
to use the semantics of the version you wrote it for even on future
versions of perl.

(Incidentally, 'use 5.012' and later also imply 'use strict'...)

Ben

Thanks!

John Black