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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__ |