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Re: *-couragement of $^V
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From:
James E Keenan
Date:
December 9, 2014 01:38
Subject:
Re: *-couragement of $^V
Message ID:
20141209013800.12632.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
On 12/08/2014 03:30 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> A few times lately, $^V has come up in the context of being "the better way to
> check the version than $]." This surprised me, because I always thought it was
> largely considered better avoided.
>
> I suggest that given the general confusion around v-strings and version
> objects, as well as the fact that $^V has changed its behavior in the past, it
> is not actually better than $]. Since $] always works, and always works the
> same way, we should encourage its use rather than $^V's. We can accomplish
> that by discouraging the use of $^V, in favor of $], in the docs.
>
> Yes?
>
I have prepared a patch to further the discussion. Please see:
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123392
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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