On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:02:35AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > * jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2008-01-15T08:37:19] > > > 1.80 means 1.800000. 1.95.1 means 1.095001. > > > > How in the nine hells of software hate doesn't it mean 1.950001 or some > > such crap? How is this defensible in any possible way? > > It's emulating the behavior of perl itself. > > ~$ perl -v > This is perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-2level > > ~$ perl -V > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: > > ~$ perl -E 'say $]' > 5.010000
So as a general class, perl is indefensible. Thanks for clarifying. -josh
