[perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $]

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The $] variable is a numeric version and so numeric comparisons should be
used to avoid weirdness due to trailing zeroes; these comparisons work fine
in most cases, stringifying $] before the comparison fixes issues on old
Perls where its numeric value is calculated differently. The attached patch
will update the documentation for $] to recommend this.

-Dan

• [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by Dan Book via RT
• Re: [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by David Golden
• [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by Dan Book via RT
• Re: [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by David Golden
• Re: [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by Karl Williamson
• [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by Dan Book via RT
• [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by sisyphus@cpan.org via RT
• [perl #134273] perlvar - recommend numeric comparisons for $] by Dan Book