Well, it USED to be the case...

Posted Jan 20, 2012 5:41 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by mathstuf
Parent article: Quotes of the week

But recently¹) they changed that - they use version tuples now: a literal such as v5.6.0, for example, will be interpreted as a Unicode string made up of three characters: character 5, character 6 and character 0.

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¹) if you use geological epochs as primary time unit that is: that happened over ten years ago - that's why after perl 5.005 they had the audacity to release perl v5.6.0 ...

Well, it USED to be the case...

Posted Jan 20, 2012 16:33 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Ah. I just remember running into a discussion on different versioning schemes when I started packaging and it was mentioned. (I don't do much perl stuff if you can't tell ;) ).