On Saturday, August 3, 2002, at 03:44  AM, Lupe Christoph wrote:

> Larry was anticipating a long line of Perl 5 versions... (Yes, I know
> $] is deprecated. But $^V does not print easily. And vector version
> numbers are not compatible with 5.005 and earlier, so CPAN modules
> avoid them.)

Not only that, but C<make dist> couldn't pick up v-numbers -- at least not 
in 5.6.x. Not sure about 5.8.0.

David

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