Abigail writes: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:01:37AM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > > Michael G Schwern writes: > > > > > Although thinking about it, since version numbers only make sense > > > within the same project, and since one shouldn't switch back and > > > forth between decimals and versions, and since one is already > > > inclined to think that 1.80 < 1.90.0 they should have ...
Note that Michael is hypothesizing something that didn't happen, suggesting that it would've been an improvement. Neither he nor I are claiming this is how things currently work: > > > ... just gone ahead and had decimals compare to versions as if > > > they were versions. So that X.YY is the same as X.YY.0 for > > > purposes of comparison. > > > * 1.9 < 1.9.1 because the latter being an object triggers upgrading > > the former to an object equivalent to 1.9.0 > > But Perl doesn't know 1.9.1 is a version number, and will not > automagically "upgrade" it to a version number. Not even if you import > version: Correct, it doesn't. We were discussing what the behaviour if perl had been implemented differently so that it did do that. Smylers
