On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM, John Peacock<john.peac...@havurah-software.org> wrote: > HOWEVER, based on a discussion started on p5p by Nicolas, I enabled a > warning if you try and use a v-string without the leading 'v' as a version > object initialization. This is a change in behavior [that I think is long > overdue] that clarifies intent immensely and makes it much more likely that > people will Do The Right Thing(TM) the first time. I'll send a matching > patch for blead (which should probably get pulled into 5.10.1 as well, now > that I think about it) that enables this for all v-strings (not just used > for version objects). > > Is it too late in the game to consider this option?
Yes. I think so. A syntax deprecation like that shouldn't happen as part a maintenance branch. It should be deprecated in 5.12 and removed in 5.14. So version.pm should not warn until perl does. That's not my ideal outcome, since I'm a big supporter of leading-v for a version tuple, but I think it's the appropriate way to handle it. -- David
