On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:20:04PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: > =head2 String as vector of ordinals
: >
: > Literals of the form C<v1.2.3.4> are parsed as a string
: > composed of characters with the specified ordinals. This
: > is an alternative, more readable way to construct
: > (possibly unicode) strings instead of interpolating
: > characters, as in C<\x{1}\x{2}\x{3}\x{4}>. The leading C<v>
: > may be omitted if there are more than two ordinals, so
: > C<1.2.3> is parsed the same as C<v1.2.3>.
:
: This is equivalent to 256:1.2.3.4
Not quite. v1.2.3.4 is a string of four characters that only happens
to look like the internal representation of 256:1.2.3.4 on a 32-bit
big-endian machine. And it's perfectly possible to have v1234.4321,
which is a two character string, while 256:1234.4321 is an error.
Larry
