perl update - what about the modules?

alythh_at_netscape.net
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: 29 Mar 2005 03:05:26 -0800

I am running a faithful RedHat7.3 box - so my Perl version is v5.6.1.
I was thinking about updating to the current Perl version
(5.8.something, right?), since I'm getting tired of receiving errors
about:
--- Error: Constant name 'HASH(0x822f93c)' has invalid characters at
<filename> line xxx (damn constant.pm!)

... but I was thinking: what happens to all the modules I've installed
- and they're quite a lot? I have to re-install everything????

thanks for any info

Alessandro Magni

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