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| author | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2007-12-17 00:48:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-12-17 17:29:49 +0000 |
| commit | a32521b767c799b2530a390662347774809e7a67 (patch) | |
| tree | 904ecec5e6786e44e9c291bb3717d0a305609e2f /pod/perldata.pod | |
| parent | 97dc7d3e75fba5b997341633941459733ca2a7a1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a32521b767c799b2530a390662347774809e7a67.tar.gz | |
Document that $^V is no longer a v-string
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <007501c840cc$99b940e0$cd2bc2a0$@com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32631
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldata.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldata.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod index 29004f04d0..7dcb5a98db 100644 --- a/pod/perldata.pod +++ b/pod/perldata.pod @@ -390,10 +390,9 @@ more dots in the literal, the leading C<v> may be omitted. print 102.111.111; # same Such literals are accepted by both C<require> and C<use> for -doing a version check. The C<$^V> special variable also contains the -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. +doing a version check. 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 usually used |