On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:05 AM, John Peacock<john.peac...@havurah-software.org> wrote: > Using bare v-strings (as opposed to quoted strings) is fraught with > inconsistencies between various versions of Perl. version.pm generally
The other issue is that it's easy for people to misuse by mistake. E.g. # In Foo.pm our $VERSION = 1.2.3; # In program1.pl use Foo 1.2; # FAIL: actually means use Foo v1.200.0; # In program2.pl use Foo v1.2; # OK: i.e. v1.2.0 On the other hand, if Foo.pm has "our $VERSION = v1.2.3" then it's a bit more likely that a user would say "v1.2". It's all subtle, but generally, the idea is to discourage people from having bare v-strings entirely so that all v-strings look similar. -- David
