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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-07-09 17:29:53 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-07-09 17:29:53 +0000
commit8fa7268995e3f23d5792dead89f0dc1b48294109 (patch)
tree701459c61542586681a93d7501290478af64fe32 /pod/perldata.pod
parent3e884cbfde531bbaf80ff3ded5ed1ee9b9a9f16e (diff)
downloadperl-8fa7268995e3f23d5792dead89f0dc1b48294109.tar.gz
Fixes from Ron Kimball.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20098
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@@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ Note that using the v-strings for IPv4 addresses is not portable unless
you also use the inet_aton()/inet_ntoa() routines of the Socket package.
Note that since Perl 5.8.1 the single-number v-strings (like C<v65>)
-are not v-strings before the C<< => >> operator (which is used to
-separate a hash key from a hash value), instead they are interpreted
+are not v-strings before the C<< => >> operator (which is usually used
+to separate a hash key from a hash value), instead they are interpreted
as literal strings ('v65'). They were v-strings from Perl 5.6.0 to
Perl 5.8.0, but that caused more confusion and breakage than good.
Multi-number v-strings like C<v65.66> and C<65.66.67> continue to