Re: XML::Simple

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From: Tom Insam
Subject: Re: XML::Simple
Date: 16:09 on 10 Mar 2004
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 14:53, Jonathan Stowe wrote:

> I hate to rain on your hate but:
> 
>   Note: option names are no longer case sensitive so you can use the
>   mixed case versions shown here; all lower case as required by versions
>   2.03 and earlier; or you can add underscores between the words (eg:
>   key_attr).
> 
> This from the 2.09 manpage.

Curse this 'reading the documentation' of which you speak.

Damn. Well, the code gets nicer, at least.

> But this does beg the question why you are developing with a different
> version of a library than the one you will use in production - surely
> this completely negates the results of any testing.

Because the development environment is used by lots of projects, and
upgrading XML::Simple might break things, but the release environment is
CPAN, and so I can assume that things are more recent.

.tom


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