Change 20089 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/07/09 08:08:30
Rework the perldata vXX => ... entry a bit.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perldata.pod#47 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perldata.pod#47 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldata.pod
--- perl/pod/perldata.pod#46~20088~ Wed Jul 9 01:04:04 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldata.pod Wed Jul 9 01:08:30 2003
@@ -361,9 +361,12 @@
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.)
+are not v-strings before the C<< => >> operator (which is used to
+separate a hash key from a hash value), instead they are interpreted
+as literal strings ('v65'). They were v-strings from Perl 5.6.0 to
+Perl 5.8.0, but that caused more confusion and breakage than good.
+Multi-number v-strings like C<v65.66> and C<65.66.67> continue to
+be v-strings always.
=head3 Special Literals
End of Patch.
