On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:09:39AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > * Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2008-01-14T23:47:06] > > On 2008-01-14, at 16:18, Phil Pennock quoted a very very unstable mind: > > >the real problem is that the version number on Parse::RecDescent went down! > > >from 1.80 (which translates into 1.800.000) to 1.95.1 (which translates > > >into 1.095.001). > > > > OK. I thought I understood what was going on, but now he's saying > > they're using n-tuples but maintaining fixed length strings rather > > than integers as the elements of the n-tuples *and* mapping them > > differently based on the size of the tuple? > > 1.80 means 1.800000. 1.95.1 means 1.095001.
How in the nine hells of software hate doesn't it mean 1.950001 or some such crap? How is this defensible in any possible way? -josh
