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From:
John Peacock
Date:
October 19, 2003 15:53
Subject:
Re: Expose PERL_PATCHLEVEL [PATCH]
Message ID:
3F9315CE.2070309@rowman.com
Stas Bekman wrote:
> Gisle Aas wrote:
> 
>> How about this patch then.  It exposes PERL_PATCHLEVEL from config.h
>> so that XS code can put conditions on it and also make $] and $^V
>> include it.  With a bleadperl patched like this I get:
> 
> 
> That would be great!

I can easily do something like this with version objects too, except without the 
abomination of trying to do floating-point math to get the numeric form.  I've 
been distracted by other stuff, so I'll wait until Hugo gets a 5.9.0 snapshot 
out before getting back to trying to shoehorn version objects into the core...

John

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