Eric Wilhelm wrote:
Why is the underscore treated as a split character? This is actually
counter to how v-strings work.
$ perl -E 'say join(".", map({ord($_)} split(//, v2.3.4_5)))'
2.3.45
That is a bare v-string, so the tokenizer eats the underscore, just like
any bare number.
Althou
# from John Peacock
# on Wednesday 23 September 2009 07:23:
>When an
>underbar/underscore is encountered, that is used as an additional
> split character and the is_alpha flag set, so that the last "digit"
> of the version is the "alpha release".
Why is the underscore treated as a split character