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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-09 08:04:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-09 08:04:04 +0000 |
| commit | d32a65d2f1b2d0c6bb34558f5da52f103d574183 (patch) | |
| tree | 951c554af771733dc649a74ccadef7c5c793f333 /pod/perldata.pod | |
| parent | 3cd5fe909a6f80e52113146d92efed61d4efa234 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d32a65d2f1b2d0c6bb34558f5da52f103d574183.tar.gz | |
Document the vXX => change in perldata, too.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20088
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diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod index 0191a932a5..785f28ef21 100644 --- a/pod/perldata.pod +++ b/pod/perldata.pod @@ -360,6 +360,11 @@ running Perl interpreter's version in this form. See L<perlvar/$^V>. 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. (They were v-strings +from Perl 5.6.0 to Perl 5.8.0, but that caused more confusion and +breakage than good.) + =head3 Special Literals The special literals __FILE__, __LINE__, and __PACKAGE__ |