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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
December 19, 2014 02:14
Subject:
Re: *-couragement of $^V
Message ID:
20141219021439.GB8520@cancer.codesimply.com
My apologies for dropping the ball on this! I've been trying to get back in
the habit of working through my "open issues" list, and so far so good, but I
forgot to get this thread into it! Fixed.
* David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> [2014-12-11T12:29:45]
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Can you tell me when/how it's more DWIMmy? I
>
> [...]
> For #2, it makes "eq" and "==" equivalent, and ensures proper tuple
> comparison. I recall that inadvertent floating point comparison for
> equality caused problems due to 64 bit float precision. (That may have
> been fixed in some perl version.)
>
> It's lets people express version comparison with either v-strings or
> strings or decimals:
Okay. I'm not sold on me using it, but I'm sold on the idea that it's bringing
something to the table. Let us document both $] and $^V, explaining what's up.
Thanks for your clear list.
--
rjbs
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