On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > Steffen Mueller wrote: >>> >>> Why have a limit on a simple integer, and such a low one? I did this in >>> the distant past with MakeMaker and was roundly, and justly, admonished. >> >> IIRC it's because the magic XXXXXXXX.YYY.ZZZ <-> XXXXXXXX.YYYZZZ >> association is assumed all over the place. > > I was worried that was it. That conversion should be considered, but not > enshrined in the spec as a limit.
Please see my response on the module-authors list. The issue isn't decimal to dotted decimal, it's the reverse mapping which is done inconsistently. -- David
