On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 04:30:05PM -0400, Chris Marshall wrote: > The biggest issue I've seen with float version strings and triple-dot > versions is with support for older perls.
IME a bigger problem is that it makes it far harder than it should be to write code that reads code. I'm still not convinced that I've got it 100% correct. And given that there is no standard way of assigning meaning to the various levels of dottiness, using version strings with multiple dots in is pointless. If there were any benefit at all from using them I might be more inclined to respect them, but there are no benefits, therefore their use is a bug, as is the existence of version.pm. Unfortunately it's a bug that we have to keep for compatibility with a vast amount of code out there, but please, don't make the situation any worse by writing code containing the bug. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Your call is important to me. To see if it's important to you I'm going to make you wait on hold for five minutes. All calls are recorded for blackmail and amusement purposes.
