Dropping 5.5.x

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Michael G Schwern
# on Tuesday 10 March 2009 16:28:

>Off the top of my head this means our(), warnings.pm and 3 arg open
> are now fair game.  qr// is not as buggy.  glob() is safer to use.
>  Tied handles are less buggy.  5.6 can reliably emulate 2>&1.  And a
> whole slew of bug work arounds are unnecessary.

I find that open(my $fh, '<', \$string) is extremely useful for testing, 
but maybe in a few more years 5.8 will be available.

--Eric
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