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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-23 09:10:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-23 09:10:43 +0000 |
| commit | dd629d5bb3bd7014585b7aad3c6715a5011673bc (patch) | |
| tree | e160968eff81a4d95db6304329581b20778209b0 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | c737447429a83c6d1354c19959048bc7751d6936 (diff) | |
| download | perl-dd629d5bb3bd7014585b7aad3c6715a5011673bc.tar.gz | |
per Larry's idea, parse 1.2.3 as v1.2.3; C<require 5.6.0> and
C<use 5.6.0> work as well; underscores are now permitted in v-strings
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5220
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 7cb3450032..bc6f2ced40 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1811,6 +1811,9 @@ readable interpolation form C<"\x{1}\x{14}\x{12c}\x{fa0}">. This is useful for representing Unicode strings, and for comparing version "numbers" using the string comparison operators, C<cmp>, C<gt>, C<lt> etc. +If there are more than two dots in the literal, the leading C<v> may be +omitted. + 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>. |