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From:
Paul LeoNerd Evans
Date:
October 29, 2009 06:32
Subject:
Re: Perl5 vs Perl6 (was: do SUBROUTINE(LIST))
Message ID:
20091029133214.01a21e19@nim.leo
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:15:28 -0400 (EDT)
George Greer <perl@greerga.m-l.org> wrote:

> The version number in code would still have to be 5.10.1(.0)? for 
> compatibility so it is more of a psychological shift from "Perl 5.10.1" to 
> "Perl5 10.1.0", to get out from the 'trapped by Perl6' thinking while 
> keeping a 3-tuple version. The flaw, of course, being that 5.10.1.0 in the 
> code isn't a v-string anymore, ho hum.

You mean like the bizarre way Java is version numbered?

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