Don't localize $@ in Perl < v5.14 as it caused $@ to be clobbered.

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Don't localize $@ in Perl < v5.14 as it caused $@ to be clobbered. #15

Closed clintongormley closed 10 years ago

clintongormley commented 10 years ago

See https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.2/pod/perl5140delta.pod#Exception-Handling

Fixes #14

Not sure if this is the right way to compare versions, and the string eval feels hackish but I don't see any other way to do the conditional localization.