Craig A. Berry wrote: > It's not really a matter of correctness or incorrectness. It's a > matter of trying to emulate something foreign in a way that gives the > fewest surprises and does actually work. The behavior you are seeing > came in with 5.003, which is to say over 10 years ago and the exact > change that introduced it can't be determined because the detailed > history before that is unavailable.
FWIW Sam Vilain's Git repository might be of use if you plan on doing some serious pre-Perforce archeology. git://git.catalyst.net.nz/perl.git