SPUG: when is 5.10 not > 5.8?

[Andrew Sweger]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, jerry gay wrote:

> make sure your 'use 5.8' lines are modified to 'use 5.008', and all
> will work as expected.

Is this backward compatible? If module maintainers fix this upstream,
what's the oldest version of Perl that will understand 'use 5.00x'
correctly? Just curious. Doesn't effect me directly. I'm just wondering
how much distribution maintainers can help this at the CPAN level without
resorting to patching modules before they can be built.

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