perl: hint at extremeness of v5.8 compatibility

[sheet.git] / perl.plp

diff --git a/perl.plp b/perl.plp
index 20eafc75339e974821a37631191a95dc13d4cc33..9591ad713ff26d75f1f671b750bb68fc34392f7e 100644 (file)
--- a/perl.plp
+++ b/perl.plp
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Html({
 
 <p>The most significant features introduced for recent versions of the Perl scripting language.
 Depending on desired compatibility you'll want to support a minimum of
-<span title="on stable/enterprise platforms such as Solaris 10, RHEL 3, SLES 8">v5.8</span> or
-<span title="on up-to-date servers such as Debian wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7">v5.14</span>.
+<span title="on dinosaur platforms such as Solaris 10, RHEL 3, SLES 8">v5.8</span> or
+<span title="on stable servers such as Debian wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7">v5.14</span>.
 </p>
 
 <:
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ for my $vernum (reverse sort keys %{$info}) {
                        my $title = 'experimental';
                        my $class = ' class="ex"';
                        if (ref \$experimental eq 'VSTRING') {
+                               my $dropped = $experimental =~ s/^\0//
+                                       and (exists $get{v} or next);
                                $title = sprintf('%s %vd',
-                                       $experimental =~ s/^\0// ? 'removed in ' : "$title until",
+                                       $dropped ? 'removed in ' : "$title until",
                                        $experimental,
                                );
                                $experimental = $_->[3];  # optional additional class