Matthew Whipple schreef: > My response was actually due to my lack of knowledge > about Perl's v-strings and therefore I viewed your treatment from a > more logical perspective.
The building blocks of Perl Version Strings are just characters. $ perl -wle 'print 65.66.67' ABC $ perl -wle 'print v65.66.67' ABC See also `perldoc perldata`. > Now that I am aware of v-strings I > consider them a convenient kluge which is highly unnecessary > considering Perl's powerful text processing and something which > theoretically fits into the Perl culture but strays away from the > modular ideal and therefore should be (and apparently will be) > removed from native support. Well, don't underestimate version number logic. Version numbers can also be like "1.23.045_21". Yes, v-strings are deprecated, but supporting version number logic isn't. Again: see version.pm. (the C-version is 6k, the Perl version is 11k) -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
