This is the Perl distribution any-feature. It can be used like Perl 5.10's 'feature' pragma and will try to "do the right thing", regardless of whether you use Perl 5.8 or Perl 5.10. INSTALLATION any-feature installation is straightforward. If your CPAN shell is set up, you should just be able to do % cpan any::feature Download it, unpack it, then build it as per the usual: % perl Makefile.PL % make && make test Then install it: % make install DOCUMENTATION any-feature documentation is available as in POD. So you can do: % perldoc any::feature to read the documentation online with your favorite pager. Marcel Gruenauer