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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-10 04:40:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-10 04:40:02 +0000 |
| commit | 4aad327484f5f36a4e39bd7979447d47a5417a57 (patch) | |
| tree | c74b1dc2ffbdfe8dadec8d7939135f6873c2197d /pod/perldata.pod | |
| parent | d96a6f6bfeb6e1e4063bbdbb1e69a78890bc4817 (diff) | |
| download | perl-4aad327484f5f36a4e39bd7979447d47a5417a57.tar.gz | |
Deprecate v-strings.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20104
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diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod index 81bb0b6de6..a2c54a8f62 100644 --- a/pod/perldata.pod +++ b/pod/perldata.pod @@ -341,6 +341,10 @@ an expression. =head3 Version Strings +B<Note:> Version Strings (v-strings) have been deprecated. They will +not be available after Perl 5.8. The marginal benefits of v-strings +were greatly outweighed by the potential for Surprise and Confusion. + A literal of the form C<v1.20.300.4000> is parsed as a string composed of characters with the specified ordinals. This form, known as v-strings, provides an alternative, more readable way to construct |