Gisle Aas wrote: > I think the term "dotted-decimal" is pretty confusing, especially when > what you contrast that with is "decimal version numbers" (which includes > a dot). I suggest you call it "integers separated by dots" or > "dotted-integers" for short.
They used to be fevered to as "numeric" and "extended" versions; I think the decimal and dotted-decimal are a vast improvement (thanks David!). I don't think "dotted-integer" is quite as good, if only because it has no poetic flow. > In the section about declaring versions in the traditional way (using > decimal $VERSION) I suggest it's presented in the string form: > > our $VERSION = "1.02"; > > This is the recommended form as you don't get surprises when the version > number turns into "1.10". Except that form (quoted) is wrong. There is still code that assumes that $VERSION contains a number, not a string, and will barf. You can get away with that with version objects, but not plain old numeric. It also makes it hard for people to remember that on a 'use' line, you must not quote it. John
